Michail Antonio
A long-serving Premier League forward and a late-bloomer in the professional game, Michail Antonio is 35 and is currently without a club following the end of his West Ham United contract in summer 2025. His route up was through non-League with Tooting & Mitcham United before he signed for Reading in 2008, then built Football League experience through loans at Cheltenham Town, Southampton, Colchester United and Sheffield Wednesday. That Wednesday spell became permanent in 2012, and after two seasons there he moved to Nottingham Forest, where his goalscoring form in the Championship helped earn him a Premier League move to West Ham in 2015.
Antonio spent a decade with West Ham, playing across multiple roles before settling largely as a central forward and becoming the club’s record Premier League goalscorer. He was part of the side that won the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2022–23 and remained a regular contributor in league and European football until a serious road traffic accident in December 2024, which kept him out long-term. After leaving West Ham, he continued rehabilitation while training and playing with the club’s Under-21s in 2025, and later trained with Leicester City as a free agent in December 2025.