West Ham star Michail Antonio vows to return stronger after horrific car crash

West Ham ahead Michail Antonio has expressed self belief in making a elephantine recovery after surviving a come-fatal automotive shatter that left him with a shattered femur.

The 34-year-outmoded striker insists he’ll return to high-level football, despite the severity of his damage.

Antonio, West Ham’s all-time leading Premier League goalscorer, spent over three weeks in the hospital following the December 7 shatter.

His Ferrari struck a tree in Epping Wooded space at some stage in Storm Darragh, leaving his automotive unrecognizable. Reflecting on the accident, he admitted he has no memory of the shatter itself.

“Or no longer it is irregular, since the total means via this, I in actuality were urged that I became wide awake and became talking to all and sundry – the police, the folk, and the person that came across me,” Antonio urged BBC One’s Morning Live.

Clinical doctors positioned a steel rod in his thigh with four bolts to repair the shattered femur. No matter an preliminary prognosis of as a lot as a year for elephantine recovery, Antonio has made excellent development.

“I’m already two to three months ahead of the keep I must be,” he acknowledged. “I know that I’m going to play again, and I know that after I’m taking part in the game I’m going to safe the sharpness aid.”

West Ham dangle stood by Antonio, funding his rehabilitation and exhibiting strengthen at some stage in suits. His teammate Jarrod Bowen devoted a purpose to him, and the total squad wore Antonio shirts earlier than a sport in opposition to Wolves.

“The admire feels merely,” Antonio acknowledged. “Now I’m no doubt a West Ham fan. What the club did for me, the strengthen they gave me on and off the discipline, became unbelievable.”

No matter preliminary issues about his contract expiring and a recent manager, Graham Potter, taking on in his absence, Antonio remains interested by his recovery.

“If I scoot myself, that would be the motive I did now not safe a contract,” he acknowledged. “As lengthy as I ruin obvious I’m true, then I know I could dangle carried out all the pieces I will be succesful to.”