The West Ham United striker recently hinted at a move away from east London.
West Ham United are facing another Dimitri Payet situation with Marko Arnautovic, according to Stan Collymore.
Arnautovic has been one of West Ham’s star performers this season, scoring five goals and setting up another in 10 Premier League outings.
But the striker recently suggested via the Austrian newspaper, Kurier, that he could leave the Hammers in order to compete at a higher level.
It is coming up two years since West Ham’s last true talisman, Payet, forced through a return to Marseille, the club who had allowed him to leave for the London Stadium 18 months earlier.
And in his weekly column for the Daily Mirror (November 20, page 51), Collymore wrote: “I said a couple of months ago that Marko Arnautovic didn’t have a personality you could rely on and one or two West Ham fans got upset with me.
“But, actually, it’s not what he has been doing on the pitch that has backed me up, it’s the fact that when he does do it on the pitch, he feels he deserves better than the Hammers.
“It’s looking a lot like the Dimitri Payet situation to me.”
Arnautovic, who turns 30 before the season is out, still has more than four years left on his West Ham contract.
The Austrian cost the Hammers around £20 million from Stoke City last summer, and has rewarded his current employers with 25 goals or assists in 46 games since then.
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