Jonathan David is one of the benchmarks of the Canadian National Team, despite his young age, and after two seasons at Gent in Belgium, the midfielder filled the eye of a history of the French First Division and will arrive to reinforce the midline with game creation and goals. Thanks to its numbers in the last year, it is said that Lille will pay 30 million euros to acquire the services of the jewel formed at the Ottawa ISC.
Kristian Jack, a journalist for TSN confirmed that Lille and Gent reached a verbal agreement for the Brooklin-born man to leave Belgium and join a project where young people are the main protagonists to return the club to the top of Ligue One. This information was corroborated by L’Equipe who also confirmed that everything is ready for the Canadian to join the squad. Within the report of the French media it is said that he will do the medical tests this Tuesday at the Lille training center.
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Jonathan came to Belgium to finish training as a player for Gent II in 2018, but his talent and quality led him to the first team for the summer of that same year; after two seasons with the Belgian team, The Canadian played 83 games, this between the Jupiler Pro League, JPL Playoffs, Cup and European competitions, where he scored 37 goals and provided 15 assists.
His participation was crucial for his club to reach the round of 32 in the Europa League by scoring 2 goals and giving 2 assists in Qualifying to the tournament and subsequently scoring 3 goals in the group stage. At the national team level, he has 12 games played with the majors and has 11 goals scored and 5 assists.