00:00Just over a year on from a car accident nearly ending his career,
00:03Mikel Antonio has signed for Al Salia in Qatar.
00:07But will he ever return to the Premier League?
00:09First of all, let's give Antonio his flowers.
00:11West Ham are cursed when it comes to signing star strikers,
00:14but Mikel Antonio consistently delivered for the Irons for the best part of 10 years.
00:20Often totally isolated in a David Moyes system, which was wretched for number nines,
00:24the Jamaican international flourished and will deservedly go down as a West Ham club legend.
00:30Antonio revealed in a BBC interview that he was due to sign for Brentford before tearing his calf recently.
00:36A well-run, sensible club like the Bees being willing to take a chance on him
00:39would suggest that they shouldn't be alone.
00:42So where would he fit best next season?
00:44A newly promoted team feels like a tap-in.
00:47Antonio is desperate to play again.
00:49This is not a player whose career is tailing off.
00:51Premier League goals are hard to come by.
00:53Antonio has 68 of them and had it not been for his accident, would surely have more.
00:57What about a West Ham return?
00:59With Wilson likely off in the summer, there could be a gap in the squad that needs filling
01:03and who better than his former podcast co-host?
01:06But the Irons did just spend nearly 60 million on attackers in January.
01:10And is the Antonio book just better off left closed?
01:14My personal pick, Leeds United.
01:16Antonio and Calvert-Lewin are striker options.
01:19What is this?
01:19My FPL team in 2021.
01:21It feels like Leeds would love Antonio.
01:24I know he has a history of scoring against them, but the pass is the pass.
01:27Get him to Ellen Road.
01:28I see it.
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