Motivation an issue, admits striker

  • by Staff Writer
  • Thursday, 30th April 2020

West Ham's on-loan striker Jordan Hugill has admitted he has been struggling to deal with some of the challenges presented by the current lockdown.

The 27-year-old, who has been linked with a permanent move away from West Ham this summer recently underwent an operation to repair a reoccurring groin injury, which was brought forward from the summer.

And this, plus the necessary readjustment to normal day-to-day living has taken its toll on the forward, who is spending the season on loan at Queens Park Rangers.


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"I’ve had days where I’ve woken up and had a coffee and sat with my head in my hands and thought ‘oh God’," he told Talksport. "I just felt down and there’s no other way to explain it.

"I’ve had days while I’ve been in lockdown where I’ve gone ‘I just can’t be bothered today, I feel down’.

"Then again you have days where you go ‘come on get in the gym and do some work, let’s get on with it’. It’s tough to manage because it’s down to you. You’ve got no one else to push you. It’s a lot of individualised stuff but you have to be motivated enough to do it.

"On those days when I’m feeling down I drag myself into the gym, do some work, and I come out feeling a bit better. For the mental health side of it, having been able to do stuff in my own gym is brilliant because it just raises that personal morale a bit more.


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"I have been unlucky enough to have a serious injury so I know what it’s like to not kick a ball for a long time, to be away from stuff on your own. So I’m quite familiar with that.

"You miss going into the training ground every day. You miss seeing the lads, having the banter. That’s one of the main things, the team morale."

Hugill, who was signed from Preston in January 2018 for £9million by current Hammers boss David Moyes during his first spell at the club is yet to make a competitive start for West Ham more than two years into his three-year deal.

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