Kalvin Phillips is confident his move to West Ham will prove successful.

The Manchester City midfielder's loan is off to a rocky start.

But he told the West Ham match programme: “It's obviously a massive decision for me and my family, but I think it was a decision that I needed to make because I wasn't getting much game time.

“The one thing that I wanted when I left Man City in January was to be back playing and to be enjoying myself playing football as well. When you don't play football for so long, you kind of feel a little bit useless because you've not been doing anything. So, for me, it was just more coming to a good club with good fans and just enjoying my football again.

“I was very sad when I knew that my next step had to be to move on, but I got over that quite quickly and was just more excited than anything to get down here and see the place and see how London is, which is very busy. I was very excited to get going."

Phillips also said: “We've got very exciting wingers and very exciting strikers and forward players.

“I'm just here to do a defensive job and hopefully chip in with a few more goals. I look at myself and I'm a confident player and training with the best players in the world does rub off on you. I'm excited to get going and have a few games under my belt."