West Ham boss Slaven Bilic has snapped back at Dimitri Payet over criticism of his tactics.
Payet, who returned to Marseille in a £25million January deal, offered a damning indictment of the standard of football in “the lower reaches of the Premier League" in an interview with L'Equipe last week.
“I don't want to go into arguing into players but all you have to see if you're talking about tactics and the way we played is the statistics from last year and this year," said Bilic.
“Even our most recent game against Bournemouth [a 3-2 away defeat], it was not a lack of attacking that caused us to be in a situation where we lost the game.
“With the ball, last year and this year, we are creating chances. We are maybe playing too offensively, maybe that is the case."