West Ham manager Slaven Bilic Action Images via Reuters / Carl Recine
(Reuters) - Slaven Bilic plays guitar, speaks several languages and is a qualified lawyer, but the West Ham United manager wants to add poetry to his skills so he can wax lyrical about midfielder Dimitri Payet's performances this season.
Payet scored twice during West Ham's 5-1 dismantling of second-tier Blackburn Rovers in the FA Cup fifth round on Sunday, leading Bilic to compare the playmaker to Real Madrid's Luka Modric, who he coached while he was in charge of Croatia.
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