‘Napoli president called Higuain fat during his record-breaking 36-goal season’
Napoli president Aurelio De Laurentiis called Gonzalo Higuain ‘fat’ during his record-breaking goalscoring run in 2015-16 Serie A season, according to his brother and agent.
Nicolas Higuain made the claims ahead of legal trail against the Napoli president over a €2.5 million payment which the Argentine striker was owed during his transfer to Juventus last summer.
“We’re not talking about a game of football, it’s more serious,” he told Tuttosport (via Football Italia).
“We’re talking about a professional who had a precise contract, and his former employer, President De Laurentiis, didn’t respect it fully.
“My father’s been in football for 45 years, I have for 25. We’ve never made a complaint or experienced a situation like this.
“We’ve gone to court because De Laurentiis has disappeared. He hasn’t answered my calls since last summer.
“I called him several times to resolve the situation between us, but the best response I got was from [his aide] Chiavelli, who told me De Laurentiis didn’t want to be disturbed.
“When we signed for Napoli, he made a lot of promises… I advise any agent who brings their players to Napoli to put everything in writing and in the presence of lawyers when they make arrangements with De Laurentiis.
“We made the right choice: Juventus are one of the top five clubs in the world. But the happiest one of all is De Laurentiis, who pocketed €90m.
“He does so much cinema, he buys young players just to sell them.
“De Laurentiis would chatter so much. Once, he trotted out my mother and called Gonzalo fat because he didn’t score for three games in a season when he scored 36 goals, which was an Italian record.”
Higuain completed a controversial move from Napoli last summer and has enjoyed a productive first season in Turin, featuring across 53 matches in all competitions under Allegri scoring 32 times and creating a further four goals for his teammates.
His form in the Champions League was mixed, the ex-Real Madrid centre-forward managing five goals in 11 matches, with two of those coming in the knockout phase en-route to defeat in the final against Real Madrid
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