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ROME: Napoli star Marek Hamsik has joined Dalian Yifang, his Chinese Super League club, is back on track and will finish early next week, reports reported in Italy Saturday (February 9th) .
Napoli had suspended the deal because of a problem of "payment methods" agreed with the Chinese club, which is driven by the German Bernd Schuster.
Dalian wanted to pay the transfer fee of 20 million euros (22.6 million US dollars) to the Italian club.
But Gazzetta Dello Sport said that under the renegotiated agreement, fees will be paid in two installments of five million euros and 15 million euros.
Napoli owner Aurelio De Laurentiis also requested additional bank guarantees from the Chinese club.
The 31-year-old midfielder is back in Slovakia and will undergo a medical exam in Madrid early next week, Sky Sports Italia announced.
Hamsik, who has 111 caps for Slovakia, has been playing for Napoli since 2007. He scored 121 goals in 520 appearances and edged legend Diego Maradona (115) as the club's record scorer.
The three-year agreement would earn him an annual salary of 9 million euros (10.2 million US dollars), three times his salary in Italy.
Hamsik joined Napoli from Italian club Brescia in 2007, but coach Carlo Ancelotti revealed last week that the player wanted a change.
"Napoli has a lot of respect for Hamsik, as he wrote in the story, but if he wants to live another experience, we tend to want to make him happy," Ancelotti said.
"When you want, you can come back, Napoli is still your home," De Laurentiis told Hamsik, who helped the club win two Coppa Italia titles in 2012 and 2014, as well as the 2014 Supercoppa Italiana.
Napoli – who won the Serie A for the last time in 1990 – is second in Serie A with nine points behind Juventus.
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