Juventus hammer out £75.3m deal for Gonzalo Higuain
Juventus has coughed up £75.3m for Napoli striker, Gonzalo Higuain .
The fee for the striker is the 3rd most expensive and the biggest domestic deal of all time (The previous highest domestic transfer was the £50m deal that took Spain striker Fernando Torres from Liverpool to Chelsea in January 2011 while Real Madrid’s payments for Cristiano Ronaldo (£80m) and Gareth Bale (£85m) hail in-front of the Juventus deal for Higuain)
Higuain, who began his career with River Plate in Argentina joined Napoli from Real Madrid in 2013 for £34.5m, was linked with a move to the Premier League with Arsenal earlier this month.The 28-year-old has signed a five-year deal at Juventus after the club met his buy-out clause of 90m euros, which will be paid in two instalments.
The French-born, Argentine Striker has won the Capocannoniere – Serie A’s golden boot – last season after scoring a league record-equalling 36 goals as Napoli finished runners-up to his new club. (Higuain’s record is the second time this century a player had scored more than 30 goals in a Serie A season, following Luca Toni’s tally of 31 for Fiorentina in 2005-06)
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