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'Excited' Nasri reunites with Pellegrini at West Ham as drugs ban ends

Samir Nasri will return to football with West Ham United after agreeing a short-term deal until the end of the season with the Premier League club.

The France international will finish serving an 18-month doping ban at the turn of the year and has been training with the East London side.

Despite having not played for over a year the 31-year-old has moved to the London Stadium until the climax of the 2018-19 campaign.

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“You choose a club and a project because of the ambition, and I think that West Ham has everything to be one of the biggest clubs in London, for sure," said the ex-Arsenal and Manchester City midfielder.