West Ham manager Slaven Bilic has confirmed Dimitri Payet is ready to return to first-team action against Watford this weekend.
Payet has only played in 23 minutes of action in the Premier League this season and hasn’t featured since West Ham lost 2-1 to Chelsea in their first game of the campaign.
The France international has struggled with a thigh injury carried into the campaign from pre-season but Bilic is happy to welcome him back to the team this weekend.
I have just seen Payet and he has not played for us since the Chelsea game,” Marca quote Bilic as saying.
“He has played for France and we will see today. I am expecting him to be fit and ready to start the game. We have missed him. It Is the same for every club. France missed him.”
Payet has been a revelation for West Ham since he joined from Marseille last summer and the Hammers have missed him, as Bilic said. In fact, West Ham have only won 25% of their league matches when Payet has not started compared to 48.3% when Payet has made the starting XI.
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