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Slaven Bilic has shown his West Ham squad who is boss by freezing out one of his players after a furious pre-season bust-up.

New Hammers boss Bilic laid down the law after clashing with Morgan Amalfitano.

And the French midfielder has paid the price for challenging Bilic's authority by being axed from the first team-fold and ordered to train with the kids, leaving his Upton Park future in doubt.

Bilic and Amalfitano clashed after the Frenchman missed a team meeting.

Amalfitano is understood to have “given the manager attitude” when he took exception to being confronted about his absence in front of his teammates.

The fuming Hammers boss reacted by banning Amalfitano, 30, from the club’s first-team training ground at Chadwell Heath in Essex.

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Amalfitano has now been ordered to train with the club’s development squad at nearby Rush Green, where the Under-21s and Under-18s are based.

Having been involved in the Hammers first four games of the season, the 30-year-old has been left out of the squads for their last three matches.

And Amalfitano was a notable absentee from West Ham’s open day at Upton Park today.

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It is not the first time Amalfitano, who joined the club in September 2014 and has two years left on his current deal, has angered the Upton Park's manager.

He was branded “unprofessional” and disciplined by then-boss Sam Allardyce after being booked and also shown a straight red card in just nine minutes on the pitch as a second-half sub in February’s FA Cup defeat at West Brom.

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Amalfitano is understood to have had a list of his misdemeanours read to him before he was sent packing by Bilic after his latest breach of discipline.

And the Croatian’s no-nonsense approach has been noted by the rest the squad.

Bilic has also impressed his players with his preparations for Sunday’s Premier League opener at Arsenal and the style of football he wants to implement.

And his methods paid off spectacularly when West Ham claimed their first away victory over the Gunners since 2007.