Toni’s Leaving. Probably.
By: Martha | March 26th, 2007
There’s a long article in La Gazzetta dello Sport today examining Luca Toni’s status at Fiorentina, and exploring his various options as summer approaches. And, despite the fact that it said things like “It has uncovered how much is gradevole to take a walk in bicycle for the roads of old Florence,” Google translate was actually pretty helpful this one, and I came away with a pretty good understanding of the situation, at least as it stands today. (I think.)
According to the article, Toni will only stay in Florence if the team agree to break their wage structure for him, something that at the moment seems highly unlikely. Though Toni is reportedly not even asking the club to match the offers he’s received (€5 million was offered last summer by Milan), he wants around €3 million, a wage the Viola believe would cause huge problems within the team, since it’s double their traditional ceiling.
Where to, then? Well Juve are supposed in pole position for Toni’s signature, despite not offering the Champions League football he claims to want to badly. La Gazzetta dello Sport suggest that his main attraction to the Turin club is that he’d be the big goal-scoring fish there, whereas if he went anywhere else — Inter, Roma, Bayern and Real are all mentioned — he’d be just another member of a very powerful squad; it’s a bad idea to ever underestimate the power of ego in football. That said, however, other outlets reported this weekend that Toni is closer than ever to signing with Bayern, so who the hell knows what’s going on.
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