Alex Song has enjoyed his time training with West Ham United U21s.

Song and Nene have spent the week off with the U21s to improve their fitness.

On Nene, Song told whufc.com: "Yes, he is a great player. We know Nene and he has played at a high level. For him to come here and train with the Under-21s is good for them to learn from as well.

"It is very important, because when I was this age I was listening every time to the players with experience, because at Arsenal I had people like Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Robert Pires and I learned a lot.

"Today, they have the opportunity to have senior players with them and they can learn from us and it's good. It was a very good training session, very hard and with very good intensity.

"We tried to show them that to play at the top level is not easy and they have to work very hard. I'm very happy with the way they are working."