Originally Posted by
portu
Think it's a classless move to take his contract issue with the club public the day before the biggest game in club history, though he did it in the classiest way possible (if that makes any sense).
Regardless, I thought Giovinco was way overpaid when we signed him but that after the numbers he's been putting up he is worth 7.2m/y.
His numbers have, however, been diminishing year over year and he's seemingly become more injury prone. Part of me is tempted to think that the club should let his contract run out and let the club transition from his era to a new one in 2020 and part of me thinks he should get a 2-year extension on the same pay, but with a crap ton of performance-related bonuses.
Overall, I think the club needs to remember that you don't pay people in the future for things they've done in the past, which I'm sure is part of D'Amico's argument given Giovinco's history with TFC.
Edit: I think the fact that the club think "it's not the right time" to extend his contract even though they are renewing nearly everyone else and it would have zero ramifications for the cap suggests that they see the need to transition out aging stars at some point or another and want flexibility (can you imagine Seba on like 9m/y until he's 34/35). The club has an issue imo in that they've found such perfect fits in players like Jozy and Seba that it's gonna be hard to transition them out when the time inevitably comes.