Montreal Impact owner Joey Saputo has accused Antonio Di Natale of using the MLS to gain an improved deal with Udinese.
The 37-year-old striker has said he will leave the Zebrette at the end of the season, and rumour had suggested an offer of €7 million was on the table from an MLS side.
“Di Natale is using MLS to improve his contract with Udinese,” Saputo told the media in Montreal, according to MLSsoccer.com.
“I’ll tell you clearly, honestly: no one has offered Di Natale $4 million [a season – €3.5m] for two years. Guaranteed. No one in the league gave him that.
“He’s just using that to try to better his offer. And the problem is that, again, a lot of people are starting to use MLS as that ‘you know what, there’s a lot of money available there.’
“So we have to be very, very careful. Di Natale is not a profile we would go after, guys.”
Antonio Di Natale would never do such a thing. He would have retired at the end of the 2013/2014 Serie A season but decided not to retire considering he would have retired in great form. To add to that, Udinese did not even offer Di Natale a contract, he decided to stay