Watford sun tabbatar da zuwan dan wasan gaba mai gogewa Michail Antonio, wanda ya sanya hannu kan kwantir na shekara guda kyauta a Vicarage Road. Antonio ɗan ƙasa na Jamaica ne mai shekara 36.

Bayyanarsa ta ƙarshe a gasar da West Ham United ta faru ne a ranar 3 ga Disamba 2024, a cikin asara 3-1 da Leicester City — wasa da ya tabbatar da shi ne na ƙarshe a rigar Hammers. Kwanaki huɗu bayan haka, ya sha fama da kararyewar ƙafa a wani hatsarin mota, wanda ya hana shi daga filin wasa na tsawon lokaci.

Hanyar dawowa mai tsawo

West Ham sun sake shi a watan Yuni 2025 bayan shekara goma na hidima. A lokacin murmurewarsa, ya dawo yin atisaye tare da Hammers kuma ya buga wasanni biyu tare da ƙungiyar ƙarƙashin shekara 21 a Premier League 2. Ya kuma yi tafiya zuwa kulob ɗin Qatar na Al-Sailiya, inda ya bayyana sau huɗu kafin kwantirsa ya ƙare.

Dawowansa zuwa ƙwallon Ingilishi bai kasance ba tare da ƙarin matsaloli. Antonio ya kusan shiga Brentford, amma raunin idon ƙafa da ya samu rana ɗaya kafin sa hannu kan kwantir ya ƙare tattaunawar. Ya kuma yi ɗan lokaci yana atisaye tare da Leicester City a watan Disamba da ya gabata.

Antonio yanzu yana atisaye da Watford — ƙarƙashin jagorancin manaja Alessio Dionisi — tsawon wata ɗaya, kuma kulob ɗin bai yi jinkiri wajen hukunta yarjejeniyar ba. Rattaba hannun yana jiran izini na ƙasa da ƙasa, wanda kulob ɗin ke fata zai iso kafin wasan Championship na gida ranar Asabar da Stoke City.

Antonio yana mai da farin ciki game da sabuwar ƙalubale

"Watford babban kulob ne kuma ina fata zan iya shigo da nasara da taimakawa duk inda zan iya," in ji Antonio a gidan yanar gizon kulob ɗin.

Zai sanya riga lamba 18 a Vicarage Road kuma shi ne sayan bazara na 12 na Watford. Hornets na matsayi na 12 a gasar, bayan sun yi nasara sau biyu, kunnen doki sau biyu, da kuma rashin nasara sau biyu a cikin wasanninsu shida na farko ƙarƙashin Dionisi.