Football

Galatasaray directors have promised to hand over the sufficient banking guarantees to buy Victor Osimhen for €75m, so Napoli are just waiting to see them on paper.

The sum is the same as the release clause, but negotiated outside of it, seeing as the deadline was last night.

It also allows for Galatasaray to spread out the payment over five instalments rather than in one go, but Napoli are demanding rock solid banking guarantees that they will be paid.

That has proved tricky, with talks dragging on for almost 24 hours longer than expected now, the directors delaying their flight back to Istanbul twice, and intermediary George Gardi also involved in the meetings.