Dino Mavropanos is excited to have signed for West Ham United.

The Greece defender joined yesterday from VfB Stuttgart.

He told the club's website: “I am really happy and excited to be here and to be back in the Premier League with West Ham United.

“I can say I am a team player, so I try to help the team directly and I like to defend all the time, as I'm a defender!

“I tried to work well for the team, because the philosophy of the team is different in everything, so after all I try to give my best to defend the goal first of all and then if we can do something offensively that would be great."

Mavropanos could make his debut against Manchester City and Erling Haaland.

“Yeah, I played against him a couple of times and of course he's an amazing player but as I always say we will try to give our best to stop him. It was good [to have the challenge of stopping him]. I think most of the games he didn't score, yeah? Every game is different though, anything can happen in football."