Child's play for Alex Song as he considers future

  • by Staff Writer
  • Sunday, 8th February 2015

Alex Song says he is being implored to remain in London after the end of the current season - by his sons.

Song is on loan at West Ham until the end of the current cmpaign, when he is due to return to Barcelona.

Sam Allardyce, for one, has hinted that retaining the midfielder's services would prove a huge boost ahead of the final season at the Boleyn Ground.

And now the player himself is seriously considering extending his time in the UK - as the result of his boys' wishes!

"My boys were saying yesterday, 'Daddy I don't want to leave here any more, you have to stay'," he told the media. "They love London. They are very happy here and for my family, the most important thing is happiness. All they want me to do is perform to make them happy.

"The thing that hurt me the most was my kids, because they were seeing me play every single game, every single week at Arsenal. Then when I left my boys were going, 'Daddy why aren't you playing? Is it because the manager doesn't like you?' It was hard for me to explain to them that it isn't easy at Barcelona.

"When I wake up in the morning I'm more than happy because I know I have the opportunity to play and I do what I love to do - play football. I enjoy it and make people happy, make the fans happy. If the fans are happy with the way we are playing I'm always happy.

"I want to just perform to give them something back. When you come somewhere and people give you the love, what do you want to do? If I'm a football player it is to just perform.

"I will put everything together and at the end of the day I will choose what I want to do.I have to continue improving my game, which I was doing before."

Song also confirmed that it was the persistence of Allardyce who sold the club to him last summer. "I didn't want to go to Italy, I wanted to come back [to England]," he added. I have friends here.

"One day I spoke with the manager and the gaffer said: 'Would you like to come to West Ham?' He said 'we are playing very well, come and see'. My wife was telling me we had to come to London as well, so I said okay. She is right for telling me to come here."

The chances of Song remaining at West Ham beyond his season-long loan have always been slim at best. However given this latest news, who's to say he can't be swayed?

One of the major lures will be the opportunity to play in the Olympic Stadium the season after next. Whether Song hangs around to do so remains to be seen, but the 27-year-old former Cameroon international certainly believes that move will change the face of West Ham.

"I am sure in the next five years West Ham will challenge with clubs like Arsenal, Manchester City and Chelsea," he predicted. "Then, when they jump to the new stadium, I think more players will come in and the club will look different.

"I think everything is going well; we just have to continue improving. If we play very well at the end of the season I think more players will come in and the project will get going."

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