Gianluca Scamacca’s revival in Serie A could be catching the attention of Premier League golf equipment – if they might neglect his spell at West Ham.
That is the opinion of European soccer skilled Andy Brassell, who believes there’s a scarcity of centre-forwards of the Italian’s degree.
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Much was expected of the 22-cap Italy international upon his arrival on the London Stadium from Sassuolo for £35.5million in 2022.
However, Scamacca scored simply eight targets in 27 appearances throughout his one and solely season at the Hammers.
Only three of these strikes got here within the Premier League, whereas damage meant he missed out on the membership’s Conference League closing triumph.
West Ham took a big hit to permit Scamacca to return to his homeland with Atalanta in 2023, the place the striker has since returned to form.
The 27-year-old already has 9 targets and three assists throughout all competitions this season, with two-thirds of his targets by way of Serie A.
Scamacca additionally struck in Atalanta’s Champions League win over Chelsea in December, which usually would have put many on discover.
Yet European soccer skilled Brassell believes his stint at West Ham will diminish his probabilities of securing a big-money return to England.
“Atalanta have looked much improved under [coach Raffaele] Palladino recently,” Brassell instructed the Trans Europe Express podcast. “Of course, they beat Chelsea towards the end of the knockout stage to get themselves in this position.”
“They’ve got what is kind of a rare commodity in European football at the moment; an old-fashioned centre-forward who really looks the part,” Brassell continued.
“You know what? If he hadn’t failed at West Ham already, people would be looking at Gianluca Scamacca and the way he’s played over the last couple of months and thinking, ‘Yeah, some Premier League club is going to pick him up.’”
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West Ham’s striker points
Scamacca is way from the primary struggling West Ham striker to have reversed his fortunes since leaving the membership.
Sebastian Haller grew to become the Champions League’s top scorer regardless of managing just 10 goals in 48 Premier League games for the Irons.
Similarly, Niklas Fulkrug joined West Ham as a European finalist with Borussia Dortmund, however netted only three goals in 27 appearances.
His replacement, Pablo Felipe, a January signing, is now out injured, having not scored a Premier League objective in his 5 video games in London.
On Scamacca, Brassell instructed talkSPORT.com: “I think people would judge him less harshly if he hadn’t picked up that ACL injury relatively soon after going to Atalanta because that made him sort of leave West Ham and then sort of fade from view.
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“But the best way he is performed since he is come again the best way he is performed within the first half of this season he is been actually good. He’s seemed harmful.
“Everything he does in the game in terms of fighting defenders in terms of holding the ball up I look at him and I’m like if you didn’t know he’d been at West Ham and you just didn’t know who he was; if he was just some random player you’d think yeah this guy would do a great job in the Premier League if you had no idea of the history at all.
“With Scamacca, it is not nearly the truth that he can rating targets persistently, and he is scored an affordable lick to date this season.
“It’s everything else he does in the game. He makes his teammates’ lives a hell of a lot easier, and there are so few centre-forwards in the game of this sort of level at the moment.
“So if it wasn’t for his age and damage historical past and the truth that he’d fallen at the very least partly flat on his face within the Premier League, individuals could be him in a wholly totally different manner.
“He’s a problem.”
