West Ham striker Gianluca Scamacca has emerged as a target for Inter Milan.
The Italians are proposing around £17m which is likely to be rejected.
Inter had been speaking to Arsenal about striker Folarin Balogun but the asking price of around £50m is too high.
Scamacca joined the Hammers last summer for £35.5m but had a disappointing first season which was disrupted by injuries.
The forward ended up making just 11 starts in the Premier League and scored just three times across a campaign where he struggled with problems in his knee and meniscus.
As a result, he has been linked with an immediate return to Italy with Roma said to be leading the race.
However, wranglings over a fee have put a potential transfer in jeopardy.
Scamacca has shown himself more than capable of scoring in Italy, first impressing on-loan at Genoa in 2020-21.
Hen then enjoyed a breakout campaign back at Sassuolo during the next season in which he scored 16 goals in 36 league games.
