Former Nottingham Forest manager Dougie Freedman has admitted that selling Michail Antonio to West Ham in the summer was one of his regrets.
The flying right winger joined the Hammers ahead of the current campaign due to a spectacular season in 2014-15 for the City Ground outfit.
Although Antonio made a slow start to life at the Boleyn Ground, he has taken a chance in the first team with both hands and now is an important and versatile member of Slaven Bilic’s squad.
Freedman has been talking about his decisions while in charge of the Midlands outfit and confesses that letting Antonio go was his decision – and one he now regrets.
“Michail Antonio was a decision which, maybe looking back, I regret,” the Scotsman told The Nottingham Post.
“But I think at the time, with this financial thing over our heads, we had to make a decision and Fawaz, to be fair to him, let me make the decision, and we had to sell Michail Antonio, which dented us.
“But the recruitment policy we put in place, with free transfers and loans, I felt was the right thing to do.”
Antonio has chipped in a number of important goals this season, with his emergence all-but ending Victor Moses’ chances with the starting XI.
The former Forest man is also versatile enough to play as a winger or as a wing-back for the Hammers.
