It is one of the most anticipated announcements of the MLS market season: the Italian Lorenzo Insigne will be a player of Toronto FC After an economic offer impossible to reject that will turn the 30-year-old Neapolitan into the franchise player of the Canadian team for the next five and a half seasons.
A salary of 13 million dollars per season plus a bonus of 5 million more if he reaches certain goals and goals scored, will determine that “Lorenzinho” has his first experience outside of Italy, after a career that includes his training in Naples and the last ten seasons as an emblem of the ‘Azzurri’ ensemble.
Although in its beginnings it also wore the coats of Cavese, Foggia and Delfino Pescara -one season in each one-, the name of Badge is synonymous with Naples (together with the Italian National Team).
While many great Europeans, including Inter de Milan Y Atlético de Madrid, they were waiting for the renovation of Lorenzo Insigne with the Neapolitan club, Toronto FC He was the one who made an unbeatable financial offer for the Italian to cross the Atlantic Ocean and face this challenge just in the year of the Qatar World Cup, an ecumenical event to which Italy is not yet classified.
Aurelio De Laurentiis, President of Naples, offers his captain a renewal proposal of 3.95 million dollars per season, far from the around 6.3 million that the player wanted to stay at ‘home’.
In this way, after Toronto FC coordinates the departures of Jozy altidore and the Venezuelan Yeferson Soteldo, the Canadian club should deposit the key money of the contract in March so that Badge -together with Spanish Alejandro Pozuelo– can disembark in June in the MLS after ending his relationship with Naples.