Tottenham Hotspur striker has been offered £90,000 a-week to move to Canada and play for Toronto in that city’s Major League soccer franchise the Toronto FC.
Toronto have put the £5 million a year package on the table in the hope of luring the White Hart Lane player to Canada, as Spurs still contemplate signing Brazilian Pato whose move back to Brazil from AC Milan is thought not to be going well.
The 31-year-old Defoe is also wanted by former Spurs manager harry Redknapp for his new club QPR as they attempt to get back to the premiership only one season after having been relegated.
Defoe is a go to man when it comes to scoring goals, but has found himself slipping down Andres Villas-Boas pecking order since the arrival of £26 million summer signing Roberto Soldado from Valencia.
Toronto coach Ryan Nelson is a former Spurs teammate of Defoe, and is thought to have suggested the move to the England international in the summer, but with the World Cup finals on the Horizon it may well have to wait until the competition is over before the England international makes a decision on his future although a move to QPR in January would probably put him in a better spot to figure in England manager Roy Hodgson’s summer plans.
When talking about Defoe Toronto coach Nelson said: “He is one of the most natural goal-scorers I have ever come across, always out training, always trying to score. To get a guy like Defoe for MLS, I cannot think of many that are more suited – I think if you ask most Premier League teams, they would take Defoe.
“It would be incredible. I call him and text him all the time. Him playing in Toronto would be phenomenal. If you look around the world and try and think of a realistic player – and I am not sure how realistic he is – that complements a league like ours, never gets injured, doesn’t drink, can play high, low, scores all sorts of goals.’”
