David Moyes backs Maxwel Cornet to get West Ham’s forward line firing

New signing: Maxwel Cornet
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David Moyes has backed new signing Maxwel Cornet to get his West Ham side firing ahead of Sunday’s trip to Nottingham Forest.

Cornet arrived in a £17.5million deal from Burnley last week but was not registered in time to face Manchester City in the Hammers’ Premier League opener.

The Ivory Coast international is, however, in contention to face Forest at the City Ground, as is fellow new arrival Gianluca Scamacca.

The Italian centre-forward will be expected to shoulder a fair chunk of the goalscoring burden but Moyes is looking to Cornet, who scored nine times as Burnley were relegated last term, to make a sizeable contribution.

“I’ve looked at his goals he scored for Lyon, looked at the goals he got last year for Burnley,” Moyes said. “That was it, I wanted goals, I wanted assists. I’m trying to add more goals to the team. We’ve been not quite firing.

“If you look back a year ago at our pre-season, we were scoring six at Celtic, scoring fours and threes, and we’ve not had that same feeling in this pre-season. So, I’ve really been keen to add more goals to it and different options.

“I see Maxwel giving me a couple of different options, he plays off the left and I’ve watched him play off the right at Lyon, he scored quite a lot of goals off the right. Hopefully, he can do that for us and we’ll give him the chance to do so.”

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