West Ham United goal hero Diafra Sakho has undermined manager Slaven Bilic with a video posted online.
Sakho and Bilic have endured a fractious relationship since the Croatian took over from Sam Allardyce in 2015.
The Senegal striker has spent much of that time injured but feels he has had a lack of game time on the rare occasion he has been fit.
Indeed in the summer Sakho took matters into his own hands and tried to force through a deadline day move to Ligue 1 side Rennes.
But West Ham refused to budge and now he is fit Sakho is starting to play a part in helping the Hammers move up the table – and perhaps keep Bilic in a job – with his late winner against Swansea City last time out a case in point.
No sooner had Sakho scored that goal than he was already undermining Bilic, though, with a video doing the rounds online and social media.
The video shows French journalist Claude Atcheba speaking into the camera while sat in a car next to Sakho saying “So this guy saved somebody’s butt today.”
Oh my god pic.twitter.com/3ENcziGxqp
— West Ham News (@WHUFC_News) September 30, 2017
The video is unprofessional in the extreme, disrespectful and entirely unhelpful as it only serves to undermine a manager on the brink.
It also begs the question if Bilic is so well liked by the players then why would Sakho do such a thing.
With behaviour like this it looks likely the striker will be on his way out of the club at the next opportunity in January.
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