Vlad Coufal insists the Hammers are deadly serious about winning the Europa Conference League!
The Irons kick off their European campaign on Thursday against Romanian side FCSB, and will also play Silkeborg and Anderlecht in the group stages.
Of course, the Irons were not aiming to qualify for the competition last season and were instead hoping to secure a spot in the Champions League or the Europa League.
However, their seventh-placed finish saw them placed in the third-tier competition, which AS Roma won last season.
The clash with FCSB offers the perfect chance to get off on the right foot, and the Hammers will be hoping to record a solid win this evening before returning to Premier League action against Newcastle this weekend.
Speaking ahead of the game, the right-back insisted that the club are absolutely desperate to go all the way in the competition.
Quoted by the club’s official website, he said: “For all West Ham United, it’s very important to be in European football again.
“We are going to do everything we can do to reach the final, at the very least. That would be very important for me. I think it could be a perfect achievement for the whole Club.
“That’s why we are taking the UEFA Europa Conference League very seriously.
“The final is at the stadium of my former club so it would be something amazing to reach it.
“It would be perfect. But we need to work really hard to do that. I think, for Tomáš Souček and me, it is of course something special because we know the country, we know the stadium and the know the people in the Czech Republic. But it’s also a big motivation for all of West Ham United.
“This is a chance to win a European competition, which is something special. We could be written into West Ham United history, and it would be something special that the fans would never forget.