Quotes About West Ham

Sunderland, West Ham and Orlando City wanted me but Villa wouldn't sell me, saying I was too vital in the dressing room.

I had a year out playing local football before I went to Charlton at 12. West Ham was the club I supported so it was a hard decision to leave.

My family have always been West Ham fans, so growing up, I used to go and watch them, and so I was a West Ham supporter.

But what a club West Ham are, such a big club, the supporters are fantastic.

I think I'm capable of doing the job at any club in the world, so I'm sure I can do it at West Ham.

At the end of the day, West Ham are a Premier League football club and that's all that matters.

For eight years at West Ham, I made a profit. And I kept them in the Premier League. Took them into Europe.

And at West Ham no one gives you a puzzled look if you get called up for your national team and players are never asked to play on injections.

I went to West Ham without ever having coached and I know what that means.

West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don't think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.

Without a doubt, the plan was always to stay at West Ham.

I had a slow start at West Ham, that's right. I came here and expectations were high because the fans were not quite happy with it. But as football players we have to deal with the pressure.

I'm as passionate as the fans, I want West Ham to do well whether I'm in the team or not.

I hope that the future is great for West Ham.

In football winning games is all that matters, but a team like West Ham and every team apart from Man City are going to lose games.

I enjoyed my time at West ham, scored a few goals there but was bitterly disappointed when we were relegated.

I came to QPR looking for a new challenge after six years at West Ham, a wonderful time capped off by promotion at Wembley.

When I left Liverpool, my aim was to get into the top six, and I was looking for a team that could get involved at that level. West Ham were brilliant at the time. They'd signed a lot of players, had a lot of money. But they've had problems since then.

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

Pellegrini was the biggest factor for me to be joining West Ham.

On the international scene you travel away, come back, feel sluggish and it's very difficult, so my decision was so that I could save myself for West Ham. I know Scotland fans won't like that, but they needed a young, fit, energetic lad to come in there.

I'm only 20; you've got your whole career ahead of you. I'm just focused on playing for West Ham and playing with a smile on my face and enjoying it.

I have very special memories of the West Ham fans.

I went to Chelsea twice when I was 14 and 15. I was at Danish club Odense at the time and came across with a friend to Cobham. We played against West Ham youth away, and the year after, we played Millwall away.