Official: Nainggolan completes Roma move

The in-need midfielder has joined up with on mortgage from Cagliari fór £2.5 million with the choice to invest £5m more by the end of the growing season to buy 1 / 2 of his contract

Roma have verified the signing óf midfielder Radja NainggoIan from Cagliari ón mortgage, with the choice to extend the offer permanently to 2018 in the summertime.

Both clubs verified the original £2.5 million offer - that was regarded a certainty because the Giallorossi trumped curiosity from possible suitors such as for example Napoli - on Tuesday.

Should Roma elect to extend Nainngolan's keep beyond this marketing campaign, you will be charged them a supplementary £5m to get 1 / 2 of the 25-year-older Belgium international's agreement.

"For a Sardinian, it really is difficult to keep the island," Nainggolan informed Cagliari's official site. "It really is for me, given that I have turn out to be Sardinian adoption.

"On the main one hand I'm joyful as the transfer could be an important part of my football profession, however My apologies because I'm leaving where I was raised as a guy so when a footballer.

"I had been convinced that club we're able to take action important, but however there were conditions that halted us from realising this type of project.

"I am hoping that situation could be resolved as quickly as possible because the town of Cagliari deserves a lot more than they will have received during the past three years.

"I'll never cease thanking the cháirman, my team-matés and the instructors that I've had of these seasons here. Because of them I've become what I'm today.

"Not least because of the fans who've always backed me and produced me end up being the biggest fan of the team.

"For Cagliari, I usually gave my greatest. Nowadays ends one trip, but another starts, but these decades I usually keep those thoughts inside."

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