Moyes cools on striker target

By Hughie Southon

West Ham boss David Moyes has cooled on his latest striker target Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca.

Initially reported to be the subject of  €40 million bid by the Hammers, the club looked likely to beat Paris St Germain to the striker

The French outfit had – as reported by Sky’s Dharmesh Seth – bid £35 million plus extras whilst the Hammers had topped that by €5 million .

In the meantime PSG had moved and are apparently close to signing Hugo Ekitike from Reims.

Broja remains an Irons target along with Ben Brereton-Diaz and the club also confirmed to ClaretandHugh they have indeed been in with the £40 million plus extras  bid for Scamacca – a Moyes/ Rob Newman target.

However, the manager still has to decide whether he will go for the player or maybe bring in Broja along, possibly, with the Blackburn Rovers man.

The manager demonstrated the same approach when signing Kurt Zouma after waiting through the transfer window to make his final decision on the Chelsea central defender.