West Ham wantaway star Dimitri Payet completes £25m Marseille move

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Dimitri Payet has completed his £25million return to former club Marseille after forcing his way out of West Ham.

The Frenchman was pictured taking his medical in Marseille on Sunday as West Ham finally agreed to end the transfer saga by allowing Payet to sign a four-and-a-half year deal, with the option of a further year, at Stade Velodrome.

In a statement released after Payet's exit was confirmed, Irons joint-chairman David Sullivan expressed his disappointment at his former stars' conduct.

He said: 'The club would like to place on record its sincere disappointment that Dimitri Payet did not show the same commitment and respect to West Ham United that the club and fans showed him, particularly when it rewarded him with a lucrative new five-and-half-year deal only last year.

'I would like to make it clear that we have no financial need to sell our best players and that the decision to allow Payet to leave was in accordance with the wishes of the manager and the interests of squad unity. To be frank, my Board and I would have preferred for him to have stayed in order to make an example of him, as no player is bigger than the club.

'I am confident that with the quality of the players we have brought in during January already, the squad will be stronger at the end of this transfer window than it was at the start.