Weekly buZZ: Moneytalks and a Napoli legend rushes to the Great White North
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Reading Time: 2min | Thu. 13.05.21. | 23:47
Lorenzo Insigne surrenders to a sweet smell of money. Lots of money, tons of it. And amateur football too
What's another name for bad long term investment? A superb short term investment!
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That's probably an economy joke Lorenzo Insigne is not bothered by at the moment. Especially after he signed a much-lucrative 50,000,000 euros worth contract with a Canadian Toronto FC.
Napoli legend - who has spent the entirety of his career so far with the Italian southerners - decides to put an end to it at the age of 30. At least, on that serious part of it. And surrenders to that sweet smell of money. Lots of it. Tons of it. To a careless, spending spree future.
Lorenzo probably comprehends that there's no way back - once you withdraw from the spotlights and the big stage, it's almost impossible to pull off a magic return.
Insigne’s Napoli legacy is going to be bottling the scudetto to Juventus 3 years in a row, getting compared to Maradona and Del Piero, ghosting every time Napoli or the azzurri needed him and then running down his contract as captain to go play for Toronto FC pic.twitter.com/P0Bf5QviFD
— JClub 🇮🇹 (@blvckgianni) January 8, 2022
And it's not as if he has been a blue-collar, nine to five worker so far but reached some serious heights in terms of both salary and supporters' admiration. And he did it in that one place where it is maybe the most difficult to become an icon after Him, his highness Diego.
Maradona turned Napoles into a hotbed of mesmerizing football, transforming those longtime losers into a poor yet impeccable David capable of crushing those rich Goliaths from the north of the country.
Diego Maradona led Napoli to their only two Serie A titles and will forever be beloved by the city.
— B/R Football (@brfootball) November 25, 2020
Fans have gathered in Naples to mourn 🙏 pic.twitter.com/QYk8wxMSJk
Two Serie A titles along with the Cup Winners' Cup trophy, embellished with dozens of jaw-dropping goals, changed the city's DNA for good. One of the most charming anecdotes says that passionate Napoli fans even wrote a message on the city's biggest cemetery. A banner read: "You don't know what you have missed!"
Too bad they missed doing the same at a maternity hospital, where Lorenzo Insigne's mother was about to give birth to a boy born in June 1991. Just a few weeks following Diego's excruciating departure from his Naples after testing positive on cocaine.
If he had somehow witnessed Maradona's coronating in his hometown, Lorenzo would probably think twice before throwing away the legend status to pursue his cosy, lucrative Canadian retirement.
Cause, you know, Moneytalks...
