Originally Posted by
ensco
I am not sure Insigne would have the same marketing impact Giovinco did.
This isn’t my area of expertise in life, but it seems to me Seba was quite unusual, the Italian thing was only part of it, and not the biggest part. All that creativity, the free kicks. Style. A little guy. He sort of broke through. Kids just absolutely loved and identified with Seba.
Having watched the Netflix doc on the Italian Euro champion team, I don’t think Insigne is that guy. Although he is likeable and he could be “packaged up” nicely by All for One etc…He looks serious, but he is a prankster who was constantly pulling stunts on Immobile. He has a kind of offbeat sense of humour, he made his team listen over and over to a ridiculous Neapolitan song as their training anthem, which the team wound up adopting. Frankly I think he would be a massive hit on these boards (but maybe a bigger hit with the hardcores than the casuals)
Re the Italian thing, Insigne is a Napoli lifer. That's just different than someone from Juve. Plus his rap in Italy is of being part of a generation of failure in WC (got punched out in Group stage by Costa Rica in 2014, did not qualify in 2018, in big trouble for 2022). Forwards on that team just cannot score goals. The recent Euro success may have helped, I dunno.
You want to fill the stadium, bring Gio back with Insigne. And Gio knows it.
(Still don’t believe Insigne is coming, but have come to believe it's possible.)