West Ham have agreed personal terms with Sassuolo striker Gianluca Scamacca, after a £35.5m bid was accepted by the Italian club.
The 23-year-old is expected to fly into London on Monday ahead of a medical on Tuesday, after West Ham and the player struck an agreement on a five-year contract, plus the option of a further year.
The Hammers have agreed to pay an initial £30.5m with £5m in add-ons to Sassuolo for the frontman 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.
Scamacca will become West Ham's fourth signing of the summer, following the arrivals of defender Nayef Aguerd, who joined from Rennes for £30m, goalkeeper Alphonse Areola for £7.75m from Paris Saint-Germain after his successful loan stint last season, and midfielder Flynn Downes from Swansea City for an undisclosed fee.
West Ham were also interested in signing Chelsea forward Armando Broja, while they are awaiting a response from Lille over the potential transfer of midfielder Amadou Onana and have made a bid for Eintracht Frankfurt's left wing-back Filip Kostic.
West Ham boss David Moyes is looking to improve his squad ahead of a season that will see West Ham combine Premier League improvement with a first Europa Conference League campaign. "We're needing to bring in more players to give us that opportunity to compete," he told Sky Sports.
Scamacca could be next Zlatan
Gianluca Scamacca has been in demand and it is easy to see why. He is a 6'5" Italy international striker who scored 16 times in Serie A last season, a man capable of all sorts of goals. The only surprise is the route that he has taken to the top.
At 23, Scamacca is both early phenomenon and late bloomer. Identified at 15 as one of the brightest talents in Europe, twice he travelled to the Netherlands as a teenager in search of opportunity. But he was still out on loan at Ascoli in Serie B at the age of 21.
Now, after shining for Sassuolo, he is not only seen as the striker around whom Italy should build their attack, but also a man who might just be the heir to Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The big man with the dancing feet.
Read Adam Bate's profile of Scamacca here
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