Sakho on bench again after row with boss Moyes over £50k bonus

Diafra Sakho came off the bench for West ham in the Carabao Cup quarter-final after challenging manager David Moyes about his place in the team and his £50,000 bonus. Sakho had expected to start at arsenal until a conversation with Moyes about why the new manager had not been picking him to start in the Premier League team. afterwards, the 27-year-old striker said he no longer wanted to play and wanted to go home but was persuaded to stay and take his place among the substitutes. andre ayew and Javier hernandez led the line, although Moyes insisted his contact with Sakho had been ‘only positive’. Last week, in a 0-0 draw against arsenal in the Premier League, West ham started with four recognised strikers on the bench and wingers Michail antonio and Marko arnautovic up front. Sakho (right) has appeared 14 times as a substitute in the league this season, scoring twice. he is yet to make a start and believes that is down to a lucrative bonus clause in a new contract signed in the summer. The club insist he is being left on the bench for footballing reasons and that it has nothing to do with his bonus situation. The new deal, signed when a £15million transfer to West Bromwich albion collapsed after a medical, is understood to reward him with a £50,000 bonus whenever he starts in the Premier League — a bonus which more than doubles his basic weekly pay. an appearance from the bench is worth half the figure. The bonus does not cover the cups and Sakho’s only two starts have been in the League Cup. The Senegal international wants to leave in January with Cardiff interested, but West ham’s £15m valuation may prove prohibitive. Sakho, a bargain £3.5m signing from Metz in 2014, was close to joining West Brom until his medical detected a back problem which they thought might rule him out of the start of the season, but he was fit to play as a sub for West ham at Manchester United on the opening day.