Premier League goal machine won't exclude Italy return
The former Bologna, Sampdoria and Napoli hitman moved to Southampton midway through last season, and had an immediate impact, scoring four Premier League goals.
He recently added a brace against Newcastle to take his EPL total to seven in sixteen starts.
Though he said he preferred the cold English weather, the Italian said that he wouldn’t exclude a return to his country of birth, especially not former club Bologna.
“Bologna? When I’m in town and they play at home, I happily go to watch them. Being Italian, I can’t say that I don’t think about going back,” he told Gianluca Di Marzio’s website.
He also revealed that he never really expected to become a footballer, even after making his debut with Atalanta in 2010!
“The very next day, I was in the workshop with my uncle. I used to work for four hours in the morning and still didn’t think that I’d become a professional footballer. He told me to go away, things like ‘what are you doing here?’. I realised later that I’d become a pro, when you drop into Serie B and notice that you go back to A.”