West Ham striker Marko Arnautovic admits skipper Mark Noble had a big influence on his decision to sign new terms.

Arnautovic revealed that advice from Hammers skipper Mark Noble helped him arrive at his final decision, and having been unable to help his teammates at Bournemouth last week, wants to repay them as quickly as possible.

He told whufc.com: “I was talking especially to Mark, to Nobes, because he is a legend here, everyone loves him and he is a king here because he has been here for years. He was agreeing completely with me, this is the situation, but he was also saying to me 'look what you've got from this club, look what you've got from the fans. We all love you here, we all can go further up, we are all improving', so of course I took this to my heart and I decided for this.

“I'm happy for this and in this interview I want to say to the fans that I'm happy to stay, I glad to play again, show myself and score goals, to make assists, but also to say that the major point is Marko Arnautovic never refused [to play or train].

“I'm happy, I'm happy to come to this point. I'm happy that this club is improving. Step by step, every week, every month we are seeing some improvement and that's good.

“You can feel this also from outside, from the fans, because they can see this team is improving.

“I want to stop all this noise and focus on my job, to play football, and the fans hopefully are going to support us in every game that we play and we keep on winning games.

“Believe me, it was terrible for myself to sit at home and watch the team against Bournemouth, because I couldn't affect it. It was a very bad feeling for myself and I felt kind of mad, angry at myself because I couldn't help the team. But I'm back, and I will give everything now here.

“We go again on Tuesday, against Wolverhampton away, and I want to play and am hungry to score goals."