Dimitri Payet remains in Marseille. The playmaker of Olympique de Marseille has extended his contract until 2024 by significantly lowering his salary and preparing to retrain the club, he announced on Saturday.
"I love the club and I am ready to do whatever it takes to help it grow," said Dimitri Payet during a press conference alongside his president Jacques-Henri Eyraud and his coach. André Villas-Boas. "JHE" detailed the extent of the decline, the player said he wanted to "play card on the table".
"Considerable efforts"
Dimitri Payet will "halve his salary for 2020-2021 and 30% for 2021-2022," said Eyraud. Over the two more years of his contract, from 2022 to 2024, the player agreed that "his basic salary will be reduced by 30 to 40% and has given up his bonuses for European qualification," added the manager. Finally "a large part of his remuneration from his last two" contract years will be indexed to the number of matches played by Payet, 33 years old.
Financially, this represents "considerable effort", according to Jacques-Henri Eyraud. "Dimitri came to tell me he wanted to be Marseillais for life," said the president, adding that he was "going to extend two years at OM until 2024 and beyond in a retraining project". "I'm extremely happy, it's an important day for me," said Payet.
"What the club has given me, I want to give back"
“The club picked me up a number of years ago when I needed it, they did what it took to get me back. What the club has given me, I want to give back to him, ”he added.
Having passed OM for the first time (2013-2015), “Dim” returned to La Canebière at the 2017 winter transfer window, where he was the big recruit of the McCourt project: 30 million euros to repatriate him from West Ham (England). “The idea started to sprout in my head when the club talked about phase 2 of the Eyraud / McCourt project. Players have to make an effort, who better than me to lead by example? Concluded Dimitri Payet.
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