West Ham officially announced the signing of free-agent winger Nene on a short-term deal through the end of the current season.
"I am very excited and happy to be here,” the winger told the club website. “I'm proud to come to a really big club like West Ham and I'm going to do my best to help the team. I've been thinking about coming back to Europe for a few months because here the football, the ambience, everything is better. It's a really good challenge for me, to come to a competition like the Premier League. It's the most competitive in the world so this is the motivation for me."
The move for the 33-year-old comes just a week after a failing to bring Lassana Diarra to the club as a free agent following Andy Carroll’s diagnosis for a season-ending operation. The Brazilian was a free agent after playing for Al-Gharafa and was the Ligue 1 leading scorer in 2011/12 with PSG.
"I like to get on the ball and show my technique. I like taking free-kicks, so practice to be good at that. I like making assists - that is my real work, to make the final pass to put the striker in a good position to score the goals."
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