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"Taking to Twitter, the Italy international wrote: “Dear West Ham. “While my time in London didn’t go the way I had planned, some of my greatest life moments were made here. And for that I’m forever grateful Thank you to the players and staff for making me feel so welcome, and the fans for their continued support. “I will continue to support this fantastic club from home in Italy, and will be keeping in close touch with the lifelong friends I have made whilst in England Thank you for everything, Ciao.”"

"Cheers. I like Serie A, the only other league I take much interest in. Lukaku has got off to a decent start at Roma."

Yes

"Thought I'd look up how he is getting on but can only see he scored a brace on his full debut on the 2nd Sept, but has only played 3x since going there, so 3 games 2 goals. Is he injured again?"

zico 4:51 Completely agree. We might as well just go for that type. A pacey battering ram.

I blame the manager. Good luck to him (Gianluca).

What Broja again? He won't fit either.

"El Scorchio 3:01 Tue Aug 8 That's what I mean, he has a type so why buy the likes of Scamacca?! Not that I would have done but he would have made more sense getting Traore from Wolves and playing him as a striker!"

Does this mean we’re going after this bloke from Chelsea Armando Broja!

I seriously pissed off about this. Fucking terrible mistake due that Scottish cunts way he manages his team . Will be a Haller Mk 2. So we have Antonio and the injury prone Ings as our starting line up. Fucking shambles of a club.

"zico 2:33 They both have the physical attributes Moyes wants in his strikers. Fast, tall, can make long runs on to through balls all day from very deep. Arnie could also finish consistently as well, which was a bonus. Big miss when he left. Until he finds another basic clone of these two to run his 'system', we're going nowhere under him. I think he sees Mubama in the same way. It'll either make or break the kid at West Ham."

Quality Striker. Poor system. A mistake we are bound to repeat until the latter is changed.

"Willtell 10:32 Tue Aug 8 The irony is out of all of those is that probably the most ""successful"" two, certainly for Moyes system, were Arnautovic and Antonio, both wide men turned into strikers!"

"Ings is injury prone and finished, Antonio fucking useless and never a premier league striker and Mubama completely untested - If he was any good he wouldn't be playing for us. Shockingly run club"

"So we've got a choice of Mubama, the prolific (5 Prem goals last season) 33 year old Antonio and 31 years old Danny Ings to fight it out for the up front spot! You couldn't really make this shit up. I'm probably in the minority on here but I think Ings is a decent player still and would score plenty in a team that plays more possession type football but everyone of us knew that he wouldn't do well in a Moyes team, why the fuck he was bought and is on over £100k a week is anyones guess."

Scamacca's playing in this West Ham team reminds me of that confused John Travolta meme.

*summed him up*

"I didn't like him saying it just before the final, but antonio summer up perfectly what it's like playing in his team as a striker. absolute thankless task, zero service and a joyless existence. the cսnt would have made greaves/rush look like a carthorse"

"Shame, he was a good player but if the giraffe necked gutless fucking sulker hasn't got the self belief to try to succeed away from his mama's fucking saggy ol teat then it's probably best he fucks off, the cսnt. However Moyes doesn't get away with being a fucking clueless dinosaur cսnt who wouldn't know a good player if it smacked him in the face with a big dick. The bloke is an absolute anti football imposter and most of his transfer targets are the equivalent of ludicrously overpriced wet beige cardboard. Unimaginative, short term fucking wanker signings. If Sully had a pair of testicles as big as his current birds, he could have saved tens of millions by sacking Moyes on transfer calamities alone. Fuck knows what cսnt we'll bring in to replace Scamacca, he'll probably overpay for the terminally average Solanke or try to tempt Kevin Philips out of retirement for a 30m package, the fucking chump. What a load of shit. Fuck off."

"I know what you mean RoyalCocksGK. But then I look back at the list of strikers we have bought in the 12 years since G&S arrived.. Almost always from trying to sign forwards on the cheap or buying the wrong type of striker. This is largely down to Sullivan because he selects the wrong managers and never has a big enough budget. Always built up expectations too with the announcements as if no-one notices that they were invariably crap and/or injury prone. That's nearly 4.5 each of 12 seasons Benni McCarthy – 14 appearances, 0 goals Mido – 9 appearances, 0 goals Ilan – 11 appearances, 4 goals Pablo Barrera – 23 appearances, 0 goals Frederic Piquionne – 62 appearances, 11 goals Victor Obinna – 32 appearances, 8 goals Demba Ba – 13 appearances, 7 goals Robbie Keane – 10 appearances, 2 goals John Carew – 21 appearances, 2 goals Sam Baldock – 22 appearances, 5 goals Brian Montenegro – 1 appearance, 0 goals Joe Dixon – 0 appearances, 0 goals Nicky Maynard – 17 appearances, 4 goals Ricardo Vaz Te – 61 appearances, 19 goals Modibo Maiga – 45 appearances, 7 goals Andy Carroll – 142 appearances, 34 goals Sean Maguire – 0 appearances, 0 goals Marouane Chamakh – 3 appearances, 0 goals Wellington Paulista – 0 appearances, 0 goals Mladen Petric – 4 appearances, 0 goals Carlton Cole – 56 appearances, 9 goals Jaanai Gordon – 0 appearances, 0 goals Marco Borriello – 2 appearances, 0 goals Mauro Zarate – 29 appearances, 7 goals Diafra Sakho – 71 appearances, 24 goals Enner Valencia – 68 appearances, 10 goals Nene – 8 appearances, 0 goals Martin Samuelsen – 2 appearances, 0 goals Michail Antonio – 228 goals, 61 goals Nikica Jelavic – 14 appearances, 2 goals Emmanuel Emenike – 16 appearances, 2 goals Luka Belic – 0 appearances, 0 goals Simone Zaza – 11 appearances, 0 goals Jonathan Calleri – 19 appearances, 1 goal Toni Martinez – 3 appearances, 0 goals Sofiane Feghouli – 27 appearances, 4 goals Andre Ayew – 50 appearances, 12 goals Ashley Fletcher – 20 appearances, 1 goal Marko Arnautovic – 65 appearances, 22 goals Javier Hernandez – 63 appearances, 17 goals Jordan Hugill – 3 appearances, 0 goals Oladapo Afolayan – 1 appearance, 1 goal Lucas Perez – 19 appearances, 6 goals Xande Silva – 2 appearances, 0 goals Andriy Yarmolenko – 86 appearances, 13 goals Mesaque Dju – 0 appearances, 0 goals Sebastien Haller – 54 appearances, 14 goals Albian Ajeti – 12 appearances, 0 goals Jarrod Bowen – 158 appearances, 40 goals Nikola Vlasic – 31 appearances – 1 goal Gianluca Scamacca – 27 appearances – 8 goals Danny Ings – 22 appearances -3 goals"

I'm genuinely gutted a out this sale. Under a progressive attack minded manager I think he'd have scored some good important goals for us. Which is shame as come November/December time I think we'd have appointed a manager of that calibre.

Will this be the thread that is bumped every time Scamacca scores or will there be another?

Will this be the thread that is bumped every time Scamacca scores or will there be another?

Eerie Descent 10:45 Mon Aug 7

"I hope he goes on to score bundles. I think he will, too. When you think of his goals v Fulham and Wolves in particular, there is a player of real ability. His season was stop-start, partly because of injuries, partly because the div manager always went back to Antonio because it’s what he knows. It’s a complete fuck up. People think he’s lazy because they’ve been brainwashed into thinking Antonio is the norm for a striker, moving out to the wing at every opportunity. Moyes would struggle to make prime Ibrahimovic work because he doesn’t aimlessly chase around."

"How the fuck can you have a top drawer striker who cost £42mil, who has scored goals and will continue to score goals throughout his career, not be able to use him because he doesn't fit your 'style', wait EIGHTEEN FUCKING MONTHS to fully scout and do your research on his replacement, sign him for £35mil, and realise he doesn't fit your system either. I mean for fuck sake. What an utter, utter, utter fucking shambolic state of affairs. Fucking bunch of cunts."