Former Manchester City and Arsenal forward, Samir Nasri, has agreed to a deal with Premier League side, West Ham.

The 31-year-old Frenchman has agreed to join The Hammers in a deal lasting to the end of this season.

West Ham also have an option to extend beyond June 2019.

The Frenchman is no stranger to English football having previously played with Arsenal and Manchester City.

In between the two clubs, Nasri made 215 Premier League appearances, scoring 36 goals and providing 38 assists.

He is reunited at London Stadium with Manuel Pellegrini, who managed him when he and City claimed their second league title.

“Coming back to the most competitive league in the world, with a team full of ambition with a manager that I know, it’s the best job in the world, and I’m really excited about it,” Nasri told West Ham’s official website.

Pellegrini was pleased to add Nasri to his squad.

“Samir will give us another dimension in our attacking play,” the West Ham manager said.

“He is a very technical player, with excellent quality on the ball, and the ability to create big moments in important matches.”

Born in June 1987, Nasri joined Olympique Marseille at the age of ten and honed his considerable talents at the club’s famed Bastide youth academy.

After making his debut for Marseille’s reserve team at 16, the promising teenager made his senior bow in a Ligue 1 meeting with Sochaux in September 2004, aged 17 years and three months. The following year, he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup.

Nasri totalled 166 appearances across four seasons at the Stade Velodrome, including 28 in European competition, and was voted UNFP Ligue 1 Young Player of the Year in 2007.

Arsenal brought Nasri to England in July 2008 and he excelled over three seasons in north London, scoring 27 goals and registering 16 assists in 126 games, while also being named in the Premier League Team of the Year in 2011.

That form saw Manchester City add him to their star-studded squad in August 2011 and he marked his first season at the Etihad Stadium by scoring a number of vital goals as the Citizens won their maiden Premier League title.

Nasri remained a central figure following Manuel Pellegrini’s arrival in 2013, adding a second Premier League winner’s medal and producing a Man of the Match performance as City won the EFL Cup in 2014.

The exciting Frenchman was also capped 41 times by his country, scoring five goals and appearing at the 2008 and 2012 UEFA European Championship finals. Prior to that, he scored the winning goal as Les Bleus won the UEFA European U17 Championship title in 2004.