West Ham supervisor David Moyes warned it’s going to take extra time for Gianluca Scamacca to adapt to the Premier League as he instructed Erling Haaland’s exploits are contributing to unrealistic expectations of different overseas imports.
Italy striker Scamacca has scored three Europa Conference League targets since his £30million swap from Sassuolo following a thumping strike in Thursday’s 3-2 win at Danish membership Silkeborg.
But the 23-year-old is but to make an affect on the highest flight, having to this point been restricted to only one begin.
In distinction, in-form Manchester City striker Haaland has hit the bottom working, registering 13 targets in all competitions since transferring from Borussia Dortmund, having opened his account with a double towards the Hammers final month.
“When you’re a 23-year-old and you’ve come from Italy and the league there and into a new start, it’s really difficult to explain to everybody the jump and how difficult that can be and the time it can maybe take,” Moyes mentioned of Scamacca forward of Sunday’s journey to Everton.
“Haaland has made an unbelievable impression on Manchester City and on football in general at the moment.
“I don’t know if there are too many more of the new strikers that have come into the country that you can say that about.
“So it takes time, especially for centre-forwards, to bed in, feel their worth, as teams find exactly how to use them. We have to do that with Gianluca.
“He will play for us a lot but he’s still building up to the levels where we want him.
“If you took Haaland out of the equation, you might have said a lot of the newer ones maybe had taken a little more time to settle in and it can happen.
“I do think Haaland has set the bar really high for all of the strikers.”
West Ham’s summer time switch exercise resulted within the arrival of eight signings for a mixed whole of round £160m, but they missed out on Belgium midfielder Amadou Onana.
The Hammers had reportedly agreed a charge with French membership Lille however the 21-year-old ultimately joined divisional rivals Everton in a deal value round £31.5m.
Moyes admits he had anticipated Onana to be a West Ham participant this season as he prepares to face him at Goodison Park.
“We were close,” mentioned the Scot.
“It was one of the periods in the transfer window where a lot of it was very stressful and difficult to get things done. We just couldn’t quite get this one over the line.
“But we were really keen to bring him in. We’d heard an awful lot of good things; he’s a young, up-and-coming player.
“For long periods we thought we would have got him, but in the end it didn’t quite work and he ended up at Everton.”
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