West Ham and QPR make concrete offers for Marseille star Mathieu Valbuena [L’Equipe]

L’Equipe are reporting on Tuesday that both West Ham and QPR have lodged official bids for Marseille’s pint-size attacking midfielder Mathieu Valbuena.

The 29-year-old playmaker, who was one of the stars for France at the recent World Cup, is known to want to move clubs this summer as as new OMcoach Marcelo Bielsa doesn’t see him as part of his plans.

Dynamo Moscow have seen a reported seven million pound bid for Valbuena be accepted by the Ligue 1 side only to be rejected by the player himself, and now it seems likely that the Frenchman is on his way to the Premier League instead.

Both QPR and West Ham are set to meet the £7m asking price, whilst offering the 5ft 5ins maestro around £70,000 a week in wages.