PARIS, FRANCE - OCTOBER 24: David Ospina of Napoli celebrates his sides second goal during the Group C match of the UEFA Champions League between Paris Saint-Germain and SSC Napoli at Parc des Princes on October 24, 2018 in Paris, France. (Photo by Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)

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Up to €4.8m: What Napoli will pay Arsenal

Jun 17, 2019

Arsenal have somehow managed to convince Napoli to pay up to €4.8m for David Ospina despite the Italians wanting to drive his price down as much as possible.

NAPLES, ITALY - AUGUST 25: David Ospina of SSC Napoli in action during the serie A match between SSC Napoli and AC Milan at Stadio San Paolo on August 25, 2018 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images) — NAPLES, ITALY – AUGUST 25: David Ospina of SSC Napoli in action during the serie A match between SSC Napoli and AC Milan at Stadio San Paolo on August 25, 2018 in Naples, Italy. (Photo by Francesco Pecoraro/Getty Images)

Over the weekend it was reported that Arsenal and Napoli finally found agreement for the transfer of David Ospina with the Italians paying the amount stipulated in his loan agreement.

Over recent weeks the David Ospina-to-Napoli saga had become farcical. They benched him after 24 games so that they wouldn’t be obligated to buy him if he played 25, despite saying all season they wanted to do just that.

Then they tried to drive his price down. Now they are just paying a little more than has been reported all summer so far.

Quite what all the fuss was about is beyond me. I mean, it’s only David Ospina.

Ciro Venerato of @RaiSport: “Ospina will join Napoli. There is already a gentleman agreement with #AFC. Napoli will pay €4m as previously agreed in the contract.” pic.twitter.com/Frskwxrxt5

— Arsènic™ (@MrArsenicTM) June 14, 2019

It had been reported for some time that the clause was €3.5m so I’m going to choose to believe that Napoli have dicked around so much Arsenal have charged them a twat-tariff.