Openda is coming from the French League, not the Belgian League, plus his playing position is more specific than CDK. Scammacca had one decent season in his career with 16 goals followed by a complete flop season. He's a bigger risk. Even if it's just a loan, it could wreck the whole of next season for Milan.
Better to get Openda for 20-25 mil or Firmino for free. Firmino has 10 goals and 4 assists this season in EPL and 2 goals in the UCL, even while not being the 1st choice striker. Very little chances of Firmino flopping as he's been solid for many years in a row, playing at the top level.
Thijs Dalinga also looks good and Milan could sign him for cheap from Toulouse.
The striker position is too important to trust someone coming off a super flop season, even if he has chances of turning good. It would be like another Origi type signing.
Scammacca might be ok as one of 2 striker signings with the other being someone like Openda, Firmino, Dalinga,...... And Milan would need to sign 2 strikers with Zlatan and Origi both leaving.
I haven't even watched a highlight vid of Openda, if he's the choice, I hope he smashes it.
I'm not advocating Scamacca over any of the young strikers that have been mentioned before, I honestly haven't watched them. I started liking Scamacca two years ago when he was at Genoa, as I like his skill-set as I think its rare to have someone play the 9 role like that.
I think that Scamacca represents an opportunity to have an Italian player, which helps with our lists, but I also think that due to his bad time at West Ham, he can come to Milan on favorable terms. Terms with loan+option that would allow us to put more of whatever budget we have into other areas, such as CM and RW.
Obviously, it would be better to have gotten Scamacca last year instead of this one, but I don't think that there is some guarantee that Openda (or whoever) will automatically do better because of their most recent season was strong. With strikers, especially, I like to see more than one good season, and for Scamacca, I think he scored pretty well for Genoa before really pushing up a gear for Sassuolo, I think he showed progression and growth.