Journalist Toby Cudworth has revealed that West Ham have been looking at Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca with the view to a potential move this summer.
The 90min writer and Hammers fan was speaking on the Talking Transfers Podcast and revealed that the Rush Green executives are scouring the continent for new recruits.
David Moyes has already acquired Rennes centre-back Nayef Aguerd for £30m but at the other end of the pitch, he has to solve a different problem.
The Scotsman had only Michail Antonio to pick as a striker last term with the club yet to replace Sebastian Haller ever since his departure in 2021.
However, Cudworth has now reported that Rob Newman and his team have been busy at work searching for a no.9.
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(34:04)”West Ham are looking at many players and they are scouting Serie A quite heavily. West Ham’s scouting team and head of recruitment Rob Newman had been looking at Sassuolo’s front duo of Giacomo Raspadori and Gianluca Scamacca. There’s no indication that these players are absolutely available but Sassuolo did make a signing last week for a young Uruguayan forward who is dubbed by some to be the next Darwin Nunez, make of that what you will.”
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This 23-year-old rose to prominence last season scoring 16 goals in the Italian top-flight and averaging one every 135 minutes and earned his first senior international call-up since going on to be capped six times by Roberto Mancini.
He, who ‘has everything’ according to Roberto Mancini, has been linked with a move to Arsenal with La Gazzetta dello Sport (via Express) claiming that it will take a total fee of £42.5m to sign the frontman who has been compared to Zlatan Ibrahimovic due to his goalscoring prowess and size at 6 ft 4.
It will be exciting to see if anything does come of this scouting mission but it does appear that the Irons are actively searching for another striker which is certainly encouraging.