Andy Carroll has revealed the morale and spirit within the dressing room at West Ham is "fantastic" and "stronger" than ever before, reports the London Evening Standard.

Slaven Bilic's men have now won five of their last seven top-flight games, with the last two coming without their star player Dimitri Payet who recently told West Ham he wants to return to Marseille.

"I think the lads have come together even stronger recently with everything that's going on and you can see on the pitch everyone is working," the striker told West Ham's official website.

"The morale in the dressing room is fantastic. All the lads are having a laugh before and it's great to be around. Everyone wants to work for the manager and it's brilliant.

"It was tough at the beginning of the season but we came out of that and we're just thinking about each game as it comes."