According to a report from the Daily Mail, West Ham are in talks with Michail Antonio to make him one of the club’s top earns.
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Antonio’s current £65,000 per week deal expires next summer (Daily Mail).
The 30-year-old attacker played a key role in the Hammers avoiding relegation last season, scoring eight goals in the club’s final nine games after Premier League action resumed in June.
The former Nottingham Forest man is vitally important to West Ham. He offers David Moyes’s side something that they do not otherwise possess what with his pace and power.
Antonio has firmly established himself as one of the Scot’s most valuable players.
And the Daily Mail reckon that the Hammers could be set to offer the 30-year-old a new deal that would see him become one of the highest paid players at the London Stadium.
That is quite something when Andriy Yarmolenko allegedly earns £115,000 per week, Jack Wilshere rakes in £100,000 per week and Felipe Anderson earns £85,000 per week (Spotrac).
Despite Antonio’s brilliance since football resumed, he is very injury prone. And that cannot go unmentioned.
Some West Ham took to Twitter suggesting that offering the 30-year-old such a lucrative deal may not be the wisest of decisions…
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