West Ham has finally agreed a transfer fee to sign a striker after a 1,079 day wait.
The Hammers have agreed to fork out up to £35.6m to 23-year-old Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca, with personal terms yet to be finalised.
The last striker to be signed was Albian Ajeti who joined the Hammers in 2019only later to be sold to Celtic at a loss. Sebastien Haller was signed a month earlier in July 2019.
West Ham will pay an initial £30.6m in instalments with another £5m in potential add-ons for the striker who scored 16 goals in 36 Serie A appearances last season for the Italian side.
The deal includes a 10 per cent sell-on clause for Sassuolo but would be restricted to any profit made from any future sale only.
The forward is thought to have been offered a five year contract until 2027 with wages reported in Italy as being around £49,000 per week.
It appears that Moyes has decided to pass on Armando Broja with a double striker swoop thought to be unlikely.
Scamacca will now travel to London to complete a medical, finalise his personal terms and hopefully put pen to paper in the coming days.
Excellent news, albeit long overdue, but as with all things related to West Ham transfers I won’t believe it until he signs the contract and is wearing the shirt. Now for a left back and a central midfielder…
ah after 3 weeks we have agreed a price, great progress, whilst forest signed there 11th signing of the season in lingard.
are we joking or what .lol
Yeah but we chose not to go to Huddersfield for loans
Good news at last but surely we need a second striker and why not Belotti? to me it is a no brainer he is on a free and a bit of forward thinking(unintentional pun)it would help Scamacca settle into a strange city and country with a fellow countryman.
Good news! Won’t get my hopes up too much until we see him in claret and blue. Hope he works out OK. But in my opinion we still need another attacker. I’d be pleased to see Dennis or Sarr from Watford.
Good news at last. Now get it done. Whoever is doing the actual signing/ buying of players needs to get on – this whole contract thing is a real problem for is – the management should really have a good look at themselves for this shambling process
Hope and you would of thought that personal terms were already agreed.
Can’t see why this would of been just waiting for Sassoulo to agree fee
Cos 2 separate issues. Club agrees a fee – then players agents get involved on their behalf
Hugh
Personal terms agreed with player.
€3m plus bonuses contract to 2027
NICOLO Schira Twitter account for confirmation
Yet to be finalized is our information, until he signs a contract it is not agreed, lots of twists and turns from agents, its normal