West Ham must regret selling Moyes flop who’s now like Harry Kane

West Ham United are nonetheless trying to find their quantity 9 reply, as lately, they’ve tried their greatest to deal with this place, spending massive charges on extremely rated forwards, which hasn’t labored out of their favour.

Sebastian Haller was signed within the 2019/20 season, becoming a member of from Ajax for a price of round £45m, which was a club-record price on the time for the Hammers. The Ivory Coast worldwide made 54 appearances for the membership, scoring 14 targets, offering one help, and totalling 3,681 minutes performed.

However Haller is not the one striker the Hammers have signed for large cash that hasn’t labored out, as there was one other signing who joined in the identical window as stars resembling Lucas Paqueta and Emerson. It is secure to say it didn’t work out as deliberate…

Gianluca Scamacca at West Ham

Gianluca Scamacca signed for West Ham within the 2022/23 season, becoming a member of from Sassuolo for a deal value round £35.5m. In his time on the membership, the Italian ahead made 27 appearances, scoring eight occasions, and totaling 1,342 minutes.

The Italy worldwide did not spend lengthy in London, as he returned to his homeland only one 12 months later, transferring to Atlanta for a price of round £22.5m plus £4.3m add-ons.

Through the 2023/24 season, Scamacca had the most effective season of his profession upon returning to his residence nation, scoring 19 targets in 44 appearances in all competitions, additionally offering eight assists, linking play for his aspect, and totaling 2,319 minutes.

Scamacca is now much like an £82m star

Sadly for the Italian ahead, he suffered a cruciate ligament tear in August and has missed 183 days thus far attributable to this harm, lacking 34 video games for Atalanta. Subsequently, he isn’t anticipated to return till round February 2025.

That being mentioned, primarily based on his efficiency in the course of the 2023/24 season, Scamacca has been in comparison with a few of the recreation’s elite strikers, with FBref placing the 25-year-old down as a “comparable participant” to the likes of Darwin Núñez, Robert Lewandowski and even England star Harry Kane.

Since becoming a member of Bayern Munich in 2023, Kane has made 64 appearances for the German giants, bagging 64 targets and offering 21 assists. The England captain has been wonderful since leaving the Premier League, and the very fact Scamacca is in comparison with him isn’t any coincidence.

The Italian has been much more medical than Kane with a decrease shot quantity, scoring 0.20 targets per shot taken, in comparison with the 0.18 ratio of Kane. The 25-year-old additionally has an additional aerial high quality to supply, with good back-to-goal play, manipulating the ball to get a shot away or hyperlink together with his teammates.

Because it occurs, enjoying together with his again to objective is an space the place the Bayern star thrives, bringing others in to play and making the workforce tick extra effectively.

Kane does, in fact, produce other world-class qualities forward of Scamacca, usually dropping deep to select up the ball and play the position of a playmaker, making 1.85 key passes per 90, and averaging 4.20 shot-creating actions per 90. With regard to key passes, nonetheless, the previous Hammers flop is not too far behind.

Regardless of being six years older than Scamacca, Kane is valued at £82m after his transfer to Munich, and contemplating the Italian has an analogous stage of medical ending (really rating higher than Kane), he is also value way more sooner or later than the £29m Transfermarkt suggests he’s value.

So, would it not be honest to say he’d do a job within the present Irons setup?

West Ham’s present ahead choices

Michail Antonio has began essentially the most video games up entrance for West Ham thus far this season, making 15 appearances, scoring one objective, offering one help, and totalling 874 minutes performed. Danny Ings has managed 10 appearances, many coming from the bench, additionally scoring as soon as, and offering one help, however solely that includes for 232 minutes.

West Ham signed a brand new striker in the summertime, with the hope of including extra targets within the quantity 9 place, with Niclas Füllkrug signing from Borussia Dortmund for a price of round £27m. Nonetheless, issues have not turned out that means, with the German solely making 5 appearances thus far, scoring as soon as.

Antonio, Ings and Fullkrug all provide completely different qualities within the striker place, the previous together with his willingness to run the channels and assist to progress play, Ings together with his pure field instincts and sharpshooting (rising shot quantity), and the latter together with his aerial presence and field dominance.

Their different possibility for a centre-forward is Jarrod Bowen, who’s extra sometimes deployed as a right-winger, slicing inside on his robust left foot. Nonetheless, lately, the present captain has proven he can play as a lone striker, scoring loads of targets from this place final marketing campaign below David Moyes, having performed 22 occasions by the center, and solely 21 occasions on the best final season.

Because the Hammers proceed to have striker points, they are going to probably delve again into the switch market, in an effort to deliver a younger choice to their frontline, however a lot of this might properly have been prevented had a little bit time been afforded to Scamacca.