Enner Valencia Makes Outrageous Claims About West Ham Medical Team

Crunch Sports Staff
in Soccer 26 Aug 2021

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West Ham United striker Enner Valencia has outrageously claimed that the club have forgotten he is injured and that the Hammers medical team have not been supporting him during his current injury lay-off.

The Ecuadorian suffered a knee injury last month during the club’s Europa League qualifying match against Astra Giurgiu. But even given the time that has elapsed since then, Valencia claims he still doesn’t actually know what the injury is he has suffered. The striker also claims that the West Ham medical team are stopping him from seeing a doctor from outside of the club to find out.

”West Ham seem to have forgotten I am injured. But they don’t let me speak to another doctor. I don’t understand why West Ham doctors are doing this to me,”  Valencia told Ecuador radio station, La Deportiva.

”The truth is that West Ham have not been supporting me. I have tried to ask an external doctor but the doctor of West Ham doesn’t want me to ask another doctor. It’s my health we are talking about here. I have been injured for a month and I still don’t know what the name of my injury is.”

The Ecuador striker scored 4 Premier League goals for the club in his debut season in England last year, but any ambitions for this season have so far had to be shelved for the time being. Reports suggested the 25-year-old was facing 12 weeks on the sidelines, but Valencia claims he may have to go behind the back of his own club in a attempt to find out what the true diagnosis is of his injury.

”I think I will have to ask a doctor to see me behind their backs. I have been thinking about going to an airport and getting out of London.”

Perhaps if Valencia does find out exactly what his injury is, he can let the Hammers know ASAP.