West Ham United have signed Barcelona midfielder Alex Song on a season-long loan.
Song revealed it was a conversation with Hammers boss Sam Allardyce that led to his decision to move to east London and he is targeting European qualification.
"When I spoke to the manager, he gave me very good advice," he told whufc.com.
"I had a very good chat with him and that's why I am coming here. We have to do better than last season. I think the club has very good ambition and I hope we can maybe catch the European positions, because that would be very good for the club.
"West Ham is looking to be a very, very big club in the future. The club has a great project and it is a very big project with very big ambition.
"I think it's great for the fans that the club wants to be one of the biggest in England. That's why I chose to come here. I always said that if I was to leave (Barcelona) one day I would return to the Premier League.
"It was a very hard decision when you have options of a lot of clubs who are playing in the Champions League, but at the end of the day I chose West Ham because I wanted to come to the Premier League."
