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Would it be at all possible for us to stick to the subject of the thread rather than everything being everywhere?
As for the links, well...
hammers.news is possibly the worst source of news available, a pair of muppets in Aylesbury that simply cut and paste stories from other sources without any original input.
In this case they have decided that a report by siamolaroma.it from 12 May of Scamacca in the stands for Roma's home game against Bayer Leverkusen is a sign that he wants to leave. Except he has gone back to Italy for an operation, he was born in Rome and was a Roma youth team player 2012-15. Utter rubbish
The onefootball.com article doesn't even offer any evidence for Scammaca wanting to leave, just claims that as he changing his agent in February that is a sign that he wants to move. More rubbish
football-italia.net quotes Calciomercato for the Juventus claim
sempreinter.com and footballtoday.com both cite Gazzetta dello Sport as their source
At no point is Scamacca or his agent even quoted as saying he want to leave
It's pure speculation with no evidence
I think Steve and Preston are owed an apology
"At the beginning of this season, I hoped to myself that we wouldn't be relegated, as we had a European cup to distract us, and Moyes brought in a rake of new first-team players (Paquetá, Kehrer, Scamacca, Aguerd, Cornet, Emerson), which meant that over half of the team would not know how the rest played, and would take time to find their feet. In my opinion, this was compounded by injuries -we were unfortunate not just in the severity of some of them, but especially in the timing (imagine how much better Cornet would be playing in the team if he wasn't out for so long; imagine how much better the defence would be if Moyes had had a constant back four for a few months; imagine Scamacca if he had learned to play off a Paquetá growing in confidence).
Possibly one could argue Moyes was slow to introduce the new players to the squad, and that three minutes per game doesn't really help a new player settle in to the team, but we have, in my opinion, one of the worst sets of fans for impatience, and I can imagine wanting to shelter your club record signing from boos and whistles should you have a nightmare opening game.
I could see what Moyes was planning, though. We all agree the last three months have seen a very interesting team take shape. I for one would like to see what Moyes has had planned of this squad. Scamacca is definitely going to stay at West Ham -nothing points to any other case!
I'd like to see who Moyes brings in to replace Rice and play up front with Scamacca who will definitely be there, as there is no evidence to the contrary, and give him another season."
If he did, then surely we would have seen evidence of that by now
For me, one of the issues is the fact Antonio thinks you have to feed off scraps to be in Moyes team. That's a result of how we set up. His too defensive (and not too flexible) mindset/style means the forwards are starved and hope for a scrap or two on the break.
I am presuming the want to play that often mentioned more possession game brought Scamacca to West Ham. That desire to play with the ball more is either abandoned or temporarily so?
Reverting back to how we used to play was a big sign that it wasn't working quickly enough and the hope in reverting was that we'd suddenly not get found out and actually be better form and skill wise in countering.
We got away with a mostly poor season... I would like Moyes to go but if he doesn't I do wonder what tactical plan he will adopt next season...
The newer players would have had that much more time. People like Cornet will be fit. Kehrer, Aguerd and co will have had Premier experience.
Will he change shape?
Will he have more than one shape (with Ings, Cornet in mind)
Will he change the style again?
Will he be able to address a Riceless midfield?
Maybe with Antonio it has to be scraps because of the type of player he is, he’s no footballer, has no footballing brain but is more or less just an athlete.
Things again seem a little disorganised from the outset, but hey that’s all we have to go on so who knows….
Feels a bit too obvious, but can see the appeal for both parties.
But as with Rice, you'd want a decision to be made soon so either Moyes or the next guy can concentrate on pre-season.
We ate in rhe Premier League with serious competition
Celtic are a big fish in a tiny pond with one other big fish and a load of minnows
Plus the idea of winning a few bits of silverware as he approaches retirement might be appealing to a manager that has won just one trophy in a 25 year career.
He said the reason our league form was poor was because Moyes wanted us to play more progressively and be more of a possession based team and by November December time they realised it wasn’t working and went back to the previous way.
Could his comments be more down to the fact that he himself doesn’t suit a more possession based footballing approach and his place in the side was threatened.
The new approach wasn’t helped by the fact that most of the players brought in to play that way became injured or ill very early on.
I don’t think he’s done himself any favours and is in danger of alienating himself from the squad.
The comments about Scamacca is when the podcast guys say Scamacca came up in another episode as one of the worst signings of the season - Antonio is saying he’s a really good player but hasn’t suited our style.
Later on they ask him why our season hasn’t been good. Antonio says that after being so close to Top 4 for two season, Moyes wants to change our style and play like a top 4 side and so that’s why he goes out and buys players like Paqueta and Scamacca who he hopes can play through teams in the final third. They originally want to see it through even though they can see it’s not working until it gets to a point when we’re in danger and so we go back to basics.
Personally, I still find it baffling to hear that we did try to change our style to something more possession based. I see that we bought the players for it and I heard people say it but I can’t think of a single sign that we actually tried to do it on the pitch. We couldn’t even get possession, let alone keep it most of the time.
I think we now look to play Scammaca in a two or find another Antonio type and a Lingard type. That would be my summer business regard attack.