West Ham captain Mark Noble says he would be shocked to see Dimitri Payet leave the club during the January transfer window but admits it is hard to predict the future in football.
If the France international were to leave the Hammers, Noble insists it would have to take a healthy transfer fee for the club to allow him to go.
"You never know what happens in football. I'm pretty sure Dimi doesn't want to come out and say too much," he told Sky Sports News HQ as he joined West Ham team-mates in visiting children at Richard House, a hospice in east London.
"I would be shocked to see him go before the end of January. I'm pretty sure it would have to be a healthy bid to get him away from us.
"Can we afford to lose him? No, not really, because he is one of the best players in the world at the minute."