Cameroon and West Ham midfielder Alex Song has retired from international football after his exclusion from his country’s Africa Cup of Nations squad.
The Barcelona loanee, 27, will now be available for the Hammers this month after talks with Cameroon about a late call-up broke down.
Song has not played for his country since being sent off against Croatia in the group stages of the 2014 World Cup.
The Hammers feared they would lose him after he flew back to his homeland to discuss the possibility of appearing in the Nations Cup in Equatorial Guinea, which begins on 17 January.
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