Additional sources close to Toronto FC’s front office confirmed to CSN that the club is chasing Alessandro Nesta. However, there was a suggestion that an internal conflict at the club was holding things up.
It’s said that Bob de Klerk is driving interest in Nesta, but that one of either Earl Cochrane or Paul Mariner is resisting the move. The nature of their resistance was not indicated.
The information differs slightly from what CSN was told last week. At that time multiple player agents strongly indicated that a deal was on the table. The agents said that they would be “very surprised” if the deal did not go through.
An Italian report appeared today that claimed that Nesta had signed a one year deal with the Montreal Impact. The story gave no indication of where the information was coming from, other than that Nesta is friends with Marco Di Vaio.
CSN will continue to monitor the situation.
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