Gianluca Scamacca was “the best player in training” during his spell at West Ham United, a player at the club has confessed.
Speaking to the new edition of Football Insider’s Inside Track podcast, WHFTV host Nicky Hawkins revealed that an unnamed West Ham star privately told him that the Italian had exceptional application in training sessions and added that he was baffled as to why the striker struggled for minutes.
“Scamacca was at a decent age,” Hawkins told the Inside Track podcast.
“He was in his mid-twenties and I thought he was very good on the ball – there were things Premier League clubs could have done with him.
“I spoke to a player last summer who’d played with him at West Ham.
“He said he was the best person in training – absolute quality.
“He said he can’t see why he couldn’t get games.”
Scamacca left West Ham last summer after just one season to join Serie A side Atalanta for a reported fee of £22.5million.
