Tell us your FAVOURITE of these former Hammers, and why? \u2692\ufe0f <\/p>\n
Which one would best suit Nuno’s team now?<\/p>\n
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Michail Antonio<\/a> has not made a competitive club appearance in 14 months now, ever since that horror car crash in which he suffered a broken leg. <\/p>\n The ex-Nottingham Forest ace did feature for Jamaica<\/a> during the Gold Cup while scoring a couple of goals for the Hammers\u2019 reserve team over the summer, but it appears that reservations over his bouncebackability continue to deny the 35-year-old the comeback he so craves.<\/p>\n Injury means West Ham United legend Michail Antonio won\u2019t be joining Leicester City<\/p>\n Leicester coach Cifuentes has now confirmed, via BBC Radio Leicester<\/a>, that an untimely pothole in his road to the recovery has given the Foxes cold feet.<\/p>\n \u201cMichail got a setback in the training,\u201d Cifuentes explains. \u201cIt\u2019s a small injury. It\u2019s a pity. That probably means that we will not be able to continue the process we started.<\/p>\n \u201cThe window is open. We\u2019re going to try to see what other options are available.\u201d<\/p>\n If Nuno is under pressure \u2013 Hammers News have been informed that the head coach still has the West Ham board\u2019s backing<\/a>, albeit before that 2-1 defeat by Nottingham Forest \u2013 the same is certainly true of Cifuentes.<\/p>\n Leicester are a lowly 12th in the Championship table, despite going into the campaign as one of the obvious promotion favourites. Cifuentes has been forced to rely on 30-somethings Jordan Ayew and Bobby Decordova-Reid for goals of late, though, and the addition of another forward of similarly advancing years would hardly have improved the mood at the King Power Stadium.<\/p>\n HEARTBREAKER! How are you feeling after Hammers 1-2 Forest \ud83d\udc94 <\/p>\n The defeat which sends West Ham down?<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc47 Join the debate; share your insight. Use the comment button on the bottom left to have your say <\/p>\n Speaking on the\u00a0Kenny Allstar\u2019s Number Ones<\/a>\u00a0show a couple of months ago, Michail Antonio admits it is the \u2018camaraderie\u2019 his misses<\/a> the most about life as a top-level sportsman. Whether Declan Rice misses Antonio as much as Antonio missed him \u2013 often the butt of the striker\u2019s jokes \u2013 is another matter.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s the camaraderie, the banter, the people we used to chill with and just run jokes,\u201d Antonio said. \u201cThat\u2019s one thing I used to do, prank people, all that madness all the time. It was just unbelievable.<\/p>\n \u201cThe craziest prank? The prank I did on Declan Rice.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s coming up to Halloween, we are doing an appearance-type thing. I\u2019m in the back of a car in a Mike Myers mask and I jump out. Deccers! Oh man, that was dark!<\/p>\n \u201cMy hopes, to get a team going and do what I love,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m not going to let my career be defined by a car crash. 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