Enner Valencia has hit out at West Ham, claiming medical staff have denied him the chance to seek external advice and he has threatened to go abroad without the club’s permission in order to seek treatment for his long-term injury.
The 25-year-old forward was injured in West Ham’s Europa League qualifying draw with Astra Giurgiu in July and the club said Valencia, who was given oxygen on the pitch, had suffered what “appears to be a significant injury to his right knee and right ankle”.
Stijn Vandenbroucke,West Ham’s head of medical and sports science, confirmed Valencia could miss up to three months and, although the Ecuador international tweeted that he would not need surgery, Vandenbroucke later did not rule out the possibility.
“West Ham seem to have forgotten that I’m 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, as reported by the London Evening Standard.
“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.
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