Manager urges £30m West Ham ace to sign for his club this summer

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Sassuolo coach Alessio Dionisi is urging Gianluca Scamacca to rejoin the Serie A club after a disappointing debut season in the Premeir League with West Ham United. 

The Italy international ended his first year at the London Stadium with a Conference League winners’ medal, but champagne that flowed forth following the first major trophy of Gianluca Scamacca’s career may have tasted a little bittersweet. The £30 million striker, after all, played no part in that Prague showpiece due to a knee injury. 

And even if Scamacca was fit, there’s no guarantee West Ham boss David Moyes would have started him against Fiorentina in the Czech capital anyway. 

Like Sebastien Haller before him, Scamacca struggled to adapt to Moyes’ demands. Starved of quality service and lacking the line-leading tenacity of Michail Antonio; Scamacca is not the first highly-gifted number nine to feel like a digital cog in Moyes’ analogue machine. 

Gianluca Scamacca facing uncertain West Ham future

The former AC Milan target is already being linked with a move away. ambitious Salernitana opening their door to the 24-year-old. 

Dionisi, meanwhile, would relish the opportunity to work with Scamacca again at Sassuolo, the rangy centre-forward scoring a career-best 16 Serie A goals for the Mapei Stadium outfit in 2021/22. 

“I have a good relationship with him. If I had to give him advice, I would give it directly to him and not to the reporters,” Dionisi tells Tuttomercatoweb. 

“The only thing I can say is that, if I really had to advise him about something, I would tell him to choose Sassuolo.

“He will be able to make good choices with his entourage.”  

Scamacca started just 11 Premier League games in total. He scored just three goals; Moyes admitting that he needed much more from a man who lacks Antonio’s prodigious work-rate and channel-running ferocity. 

“We know that his physical data has to be much better than it is,” Moyes explains (The Standard). 

“Gianluca has got to get himself back. I think his application is there. We just want the output to be bigger and more. That’s one of things we are looking for.

“The general part of his play, his hold-up play, we like him for it. He’s really, really good at it, and we’ve not seen it as much in the work we’ve been doing.”