Antonio lifts lid on the ‘problem’ Scamacca has had at West Ham this season
Scamacca was signed from Sassuolo final summer time in a £30.5million deal, partly to supply competitors for Antonio, who had led the Hammers line alone for a lot of the earlier season, however has struggled to adapt to English soccer.
There have been encouraging durations within the early a part of the marketing campaign, when Scamacca scored 4 instances throughout Europa Conference League qualifying and the group stage, in addition to in back-to-back Premier League wins over Fulham and Wolves. However, the Italian would discover the online simply as soon as extra within the League all season earlier than having his marketing campaign curtailed by a knee problem which eventually required surgery.
“He’s a quality player,” Antonio stated throughout an look on the Filthy Fellas podcast. “The problem is, he can’t play the way the gaffer plays. He needs a different type of manager to play his type of football, [one who can] have other players play off him and stuff like that.
“You can see it, when the ball comes into him it sticks and he’s tidy. But the way David Moyes plays, if you’re up front you’re dealing with scraps and you’ve got to be more of a fighter, that’s not him.”
The 24-year-old is predicted to be slot in time to begin pre-season, though there’s concern that the striker may very well be tempted by a swift return to Serie A this summer time.
Antonio, in the meantime, stated Hammers captain Declan Rice is each bit pretty much as good as Manchester City’s title-winning midfielder Rodri. “What has Rodri got that Declan hasn’t?” he stated.