West Ham captain Declan Rice has welcomed three former teammates as Nottingham Forest visit London stadium today.
He wrote for the match programme: "We play Nottingham Forest on Saturday and I want to welcome Cheikhou Kouyat, Jesse Lingard and Andr Ayew back to east London.
"Cheikhou is a top lad and had a great run here, Jesse fell in love with us during his six months here, and Andr was in the team and scored on my debut at Burnley six years ago, and they deserve a warm welcome, but they're Forest players now and we need to produce the goods and get the better of them.
"We have spoken together as a group, both after the game at Spurs and again this week, and every player knows we haven't been good enough. We should not be in this position, but the reality is that we are, and we know as players that we can only dig deep and ensure this football club stays in the Premier League.
"At the moment, where we are is not good, but it's down to us to keep positive and keep pushing each other as hard as we can and, with the fans behind us today, we're looking to collect three big points."