Michail Antonio has been linked with a move away from West Ham United in the summer transfer window.
Michail Antonio has been West Ham United’s best player this season, but the winger’s future at the Premier League club has been cast into doubt.
According to a recent report in The Times, Antonio will look to leave West Ham in the summer transfer window after falling out with the club’s board.
It has been reported that the former Nottingham Forest winger has rejected a new deal with the Hammers as he is not happy at being offered significantly lower wages than Robert Snodgrass and Jose Fonte, both of whom moved to the London club in the January transfer window.
According to The Times, the 27-year-old earns £35,000 per week as salary at West Ham, and the winger wants to leave the London Stadium in the summer.
Antonio has scored nine goals and created 31 chances 29 Premier League appearances for the Hammers so far this season.
Former Chelsea and Manchester United midfielder Ray Wilkins has given his take on the situation, and has some harsh comments for ex-Reading and Sheffield Wednesday winger Antonio.
“Why should he be disappointed?” said Wilkins about Antonio on The Alan Brazil Sports Breakfast show on talkSPORT last Friday morning (broadcast from 6am, April 28, 2017).
“He came from Nottingham Forest to a Premier League club who have looked after him extremely well. Get your head down and start playing for the club. All this business about ‘I am a bit disappointed with the board’… He shouldn’t even be talking to the board.
“What’s he talking to the board for? His first communication is with Slaven Bilic. Don’t go to the board, don’t have a row with the board, his communication is with the manager.”
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