Dimitri Payet

[BoringOldFan]

Tottenham are leading the chase to sign Saint Etienne midfielder Dimitri Payet for £7m (talksport December 21).

Clicky.

Talksport seems to have come up on the rails in terms of rumours. I don't recall them running so many leading up to previous windows, but maybe they've seen how many hits their site gets when they do.

Time will tell if they are talking sport or spouting tripe, but at least they are putting forward some interesting new names.

 

[There's always next year]

Never heard of him. Is he Gus Poyet's Russian cousin

 

[THOWIG]

Bit of a trick pony who has been in fantastic form this season. Gaining lots of attention.

 

[3Dnata]

Bit of a trick pony who has been in fantastic form this season. Gaining lots of attention.

Is he a whole field of ponies or just the single pony?

 

[THOWIG]

Nice reference

 

[leffe186]

Clicky.

Talksport seems to have come up on the rails in terms of rumours. I don't recall them running so many leading up to previous windows, but maybe they've seen how many hits their site gets when they do.

Time will tell if they are talking sport or spouting tripe, but at least they are putting forward some interesting new names.

This. They lie as a matter of course.

 

[Dharmabum]

Wouldn't mind him replacing Bentley (should he leave) as WMF back up Payet will most probably end up at Liverpool anyway.


Liverpool official Damien Comolli has heaped praise on St Etienne winger Dimitri Payet, rating him as more naturally talented than Tottenham man Luka Modric.
Comolli, who was appointed as the new director of football strategy at Anfield last week, had plenty of time to observe Payet in his former role as director of sport at the Stade Geoffroy-Guichard.
The Frenchman is also familiar with Spurs midfielder Modric,

having spent three years as director of football at White Hart Lane.

Comolli suggests Payet, who has been recently linked with a move to Liverpool,

has more to offer than Croatian playmaker Modric, and says the 23-year-old would be more than capable of plying his trade outside his homeland.
"On a natural class level, Dimitri is stronger than a player like Modric, (who) I saw very closely at Tottenham," Comolli told France Football.
"It is a very high level. We never stopped repeating to him: 'It is only up to you to join a French team'."
Sochaux coordinator of sports Jacques Crevoisier, former assistant to Gerard Houllier

at Liverpool, agrees Payet has massive potential, likening him to French stars such as Djibril Cisse

and Thierry Henry.

"Dimitri is a sprinter," said Crevoisier. "He is a little like Djibril Cisse and Thierry Henry when they were 14 or 15-years-old.
"Two years ago, I advised St Etienne

to make him work on his endurance. He is now good on that level."

 

[Kalim]

Liverpool official Damien Comolli has heaped praise on St Etienne

"Dimitri is a sprinter," said Crevoisier. "He is a little like Djibril Cisse and Thierry Henry when they were 14 or 15-years-old.
"Two years ago, I advised St Etienne

to make him work on his endurance. He is now good on that level."
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Not bad as he is meant to be 23:wink:

 

[ealingspur]

how can he be compared to modric and cisse in the same interview?

 

[Dharmabum]

how can he be compared to modric and cisse in the same interview?

Why not? All he says is that Payet is stronger than Modric (doesn't take much really) and [almsot] as fleet footed as Cisse was.

 

[Teemu]

Bit of a trick pony who has been in fantastic form this season. Gaining lots of attention.

He was good for the first 10 games or so when he scored a few goals and Saint-Etienne were top and has done absolutely nothing since. One of those flair players who's great when he's hot but can be ineffective when he's not, a bit like Ben Arfa. Played well on his debut for France though.

 

[archiewasking]

Sounds like a ransom demand to the KGB.