A Quote by Michael Carrick

When I left West Ham in 2004 there was a chance of them signing me instead of Spurs, but it isn't something I think about too often. I've been spoilt during my career.

Michael Carrick

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Michael Carrick
English - Coach
Born: July 28, 1981

I actually had the chance to sign for Newcastle before I went to West Ham; I didn't in the end because they had got rid of their reserve team. There were a few clubs interested but I liked what West Ham had to offer and never regretted signing for them, I loved it straight away.

Michael Carrick

My family have always been West Ham fans, so growing up, I used to go and watch them, and so I was a West Ham supporter.

Jack Wilshere

I think that with West Ham, it was more complicated for me. It happened naturally; there was urgency to leave West Ham.

Dimitri Payet

Playing Tottenham seems to rile up West Ham like nothing else - something that when I first went to Spurs I didn't really understand.

Jermaine Jenas

Playing left midfield a lot at West Ham has been tough but the manager has put me there and I've got every faith in what he's doing.

Robert Snodgrass

I didn't have the chance to play at West Ham, but in football, you always have a chance. When I went to Liverpool, I had the chance to show my quality.

Javier Mascherano

If I was a normal player at West Ham and wanted to join a Chinese club, nobody would have said anything. But since I was a leader at West Ham and thought about that offer, I was suddenly a bad man.

Marko Arnautovic

Anybody who has a career is going to have to deal with a rumor in their time, or something that usually isn't true. I have a great team behind me and a family that supports me. I just care too much about my career. I have been working too long to let it slip away for something stupid.

Jesse McCartney

I'm really happy that West Ham and Manuel Pellegrini have given me a chance to be playing again.

Samir Nasri

The man who comes to take care of my piranhas told me that if I left West Ham he would kill all my fish.

Paolo Di Canio

The satisfaction for me is that when you leave somewhere you look at what you are leaving and I know I left West Ham in great shape.

Sam Allardyce

When I was a player, you only left the club if they wanted to get rid of you. That was your team - if you were at West Ham, you didn't leave until the manager wanted to replace you. You didn't think about playing for Arsenal or Chelsea.

Harry Redknapp

West Ham was the best choice for me on the back of my best season in Ligue 1. I don't think there was much room left for progress in Ligue 1.

Dimitri Payet

Get into something that's really personal that means something to you, where you have something to say and is something really individualized. I wish I was more aware of that when I started my career instead of doing a few things I was told would be good for me. And they weren't, because it left me empty, so I didn't do a good job anyways. I think that's what's key to what we do: It's got to be personal.