Evening Standard
·9 October 2025
Michail Antonio training with Brentford after West Ham release

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·9 October 2025
Jamaica forward keeping fit with the Bees as he searches for new club, 10 months on from horror car crash
Michail Antonio has been training with Brentford after being released by West Ham in the summer.
The 35-year-old is West Ham's record goalscorer in the Premier League, but is currently without a club after his contract expired at the end of last season.
Antonio did not make another first-team appearance for West Ham after a car crash in December that left him with a badly broken leg and nearly cost him his life.
The forward has now recovered from that and is on the hunt for a new club. He lives locally to Brentford and the Bees have allowed him to stay fit by training with Keith Andrews' first team.
However, Standard Sport understands that there are no plans for Brentford to offer Antonio a contract.
Antonio made his return to action for Jamaica in June when he came off the bench in the closing stages against Guatemala in the Gold Cup.
Despite being released by West Ham, he then featured for the club's Under-21 side in August. However, he is no longer working with the Hammers and is instead using the facilities at Brentford's training ground.
Antonio has insisted that he has no intention of retiring yet, but former manager Graham Potter suggested earlier this summer that West Ham were in talks over the striker remaining at the club in a different capacity.
"We're in the process of speaking about what he wants to do in the future, so I wouldn't want to say too much," Potter said in August.
"If anything, it will be a role, maybe looking at with the [Under] 21s, coaching, mentoring, that type of thing. But again, that will be up to him."