West Ham legend Sir Geoff Hurst says the club should be happy to have offloaded Dimitri Payet to Marseille.
France international Payet went on strike to force a move back to Marseille during January, eventually joining the Ligue 1 giants for £25million in the final days of the transfer window.
“West Ham handled it well by not trying to keep it under lock and key," Hurst told the London Evening Standard. “It needs to be sorted, talked about and dealt with. As far as I can see it has been dealt with very well by the club.
“It always looked like they'd get £25m for him, that's not too bad a deal at all considering we paid £10m for him. More importantly the unity of the team has proven the most important thing.
“In one sense it's sad to lose him but no matter how good you are if you behave like a prima donna and don't want to play [it's no great loss].
“If I go back to our England team we had a player far better than Payet, Bobby Charlton. He was a very humble man, a great player on the pitch but never a diva off it. Imagine scoring two goals in the World Cup semi-final then the manager comes in the final and asks you to mark somebody. Bobby took that task on in the final and marked [Franz] Beckenbauer. Two of the best players in history marked each other out of the game!"
Source: tribalfootball.com