{"id":433240,"date":"2026-02-19T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433240\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T01:16:08","slug":"michail-antonio-qatari-club-al-sailiya-start-talks-with-striker-alongside-charlton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/433240\/","title":{"rendered":"Michail Antonio: Qatari club Al\u2011Sailiya start talks with striker alongside Charlton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michail Antonio is in talks with Qatari club Al\u2011Sailiya as well as Championship side Charlton Athletic as he looks to return to regular football following his near-fatal car crash.<\/p>\n

The former West Ham<\/a> striker is keen to return to regular football and is currently training at Charlton’s base in south\u2011east London.<\/p>\n

Negotiations with both clubs are ongoing.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old featured for Jamaica at June’s Concacaf Gold Cup<\/a> after recovering from the accident, which happened in December 2024.<\/p>\n

West Ham<\/a> released Antonio in August<\/a> and he later had a short spell training with Leicester City before suffering a minor setback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Charlton’s defeat by Portsmouth on Saturday, manager Nathan Jones said there was “nothing yet” to announce, but added that “the wheels are still in motion”.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with the BBC in March 2025<\/a>, the forward said he felt like he was “close to dying” after the crash in Essex and that he believes he has been given “another chance at life”.<\/p>\n

“I shattered my femur bone in four different places,” he said.<\/p>\n

“I had one single keyhole surgery. They put a pole in my thigh with four bolts, so screws and bolts to knit it back together.<\/p>\n

“My first surgeon said he didn’t want me to put any weight on my leg for three months, which is around about now, and you can see that I am walking.<\/p>\n

“We got a second specialist who said I needed to start putting weight on it, increasing from 10% up to 100% within three weeks.<\/p>\n

“But I kept my crutches for a further two weeks. Overall, they say it will be between six to 12 months before my leg starts healing properly.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michail Antonio is in talks with Qatari club Al\u2011Sailiya as well as Championship side Charlton Athletic as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-433240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}