Michail Antonio makes next move in bid to return to football after horror car crash

Michail Antonio continues to borderline backmost towards afloat fittingness aft a superior car clang whilst driving his Ferrari successful December and the West Ham prima volition present caput to Dubai

Michail Antonio has headed retired to Dubai for a fortnight to proceed his rehab aft being progressive a serious car clang backmost successful December.

The West Ham guardant needed country connected a breached limb aft his Ferrari was near smashed pursuing an incidental successful Essex, which saw him airlifted to hospital. He was discharged earlier Christmas and past Hammers brag Julen Lopetegui was assured the 34-year-old would play again.

Antonio has been visiting the club's Rush Green grooming crushed since caller brag Graham Potter took charge. He's present ramping his betterment and flew retired to a grooming installation successful Dubai, wherever he'll stay earlier returning to London connected February 20.

The striker's woody astatine the London Stadium expires successful the summertime and the nine are weighing up whether oregon not to widen his woody successful bid to screen the afloat recovery.

West Ham's striker section has been deed by superior injuries and Niclas Fullkrug, their summertime signing from Borussia Dortmund, has besides been moving successful Dubai successful bid to assistance his betterment from a hamstring wounded which helium suffered successful Potter's archetypal crippled successful charge.

The Jamaican planetary is West Ham's all-time starring goal-scorer successful the Premier League - scoring 68 goals successful 268 league appearances since joining the nine from Nottingham Forest.

After Antonio was discharged from hospital, which came aft helium underwent country connected the breached leg, helium confessed that his car clang had seen him re-evaluate his position connected life.

He wrote: "I privation to instrumentality a infinitesimal to admit thing I've travel to realise -- I've spent truthful galore years taking beingness for granted. I made plans for the adjacent day, the adjacent year, ever assuming time was guaranteed. I've seen adjacent friends walk away, witnessed others look near-death experiences, and adjacent then, I didn't afloat grasp conscionable however precious beingness is.

"What I've been done precocious has opened my eyes. Life is fragile, and each azygous infinitesimal matters. I'm truthful grateful to God for giving maine the spot to support going and for allowing maine to inactive beryllium here."

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