Kalvin Phillips admits West Ham football chief Mark Noble helped convince him about the move.

The Manchester City midfielder is now on-loan with the Hammers.

He told West Ham's match programme: “I know Dec (Declan Rice) quite well and I spoke to him about the Club, and he spoke very highly, and he loves the Club. He just said, 'if there's a place you are going to go, go to West Ham because you'll love it there and have an amazing time because they've got great people'. I spoke to Nobes too and I can just tell by the way Nobes and Dec spoke about it that I'm going to like it here.

“There was obviously speculation two years ago and how for the past two years West Ham have wanted to sign me and I think the kind of person that I am, I kind of wanted to give David Moyes and myself the opportunity to try and work together for West Ham and hopefully we'll go on to do good things.

“I think we're climbing towards the Champions League spots as a Club. I think, with the pedigree of the players that we have got and how well we've been performing, we're not going to drop below what they've done in the first half of the season. When everyone is fit, this team can cause anyone real problems."