3 reasons why West Ham will clinch a European place this season

Payet situation sorted

Manager Bilic revealed in his pre-Crystal Palace press conference back on January 12 that star man didn’t want to play for the club anymore, and he has subsequently left the London Stadium for £25 million and returned to Marseille.

And you wonder, given that West Ham have been significantly better as a team since Payet’s exclusion and subsequent sale, that the whole Payet situation had been rumbling on for some time, and affected the other players as well.

Since that press conference, the Hammers have won three of their four Premier League matches, and in those three victories, they have played as a team that didn’t need Payet, and one that is actually better off without him.

Ultimately, West Ham have done well in sorting the Payet situation quickly, as it could quite easily have had a knock-on effect for longer than it did, and now they can focus all their energy on closing the gap to the European places.

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