This time it's over.
After being loaned to six clubs (Lens, Bastia, Villarreal, Real Madrid, Fulham and West Ham this season), Alphonse Areola, 29, will finally settle down without going back to the PSG box during the summer.
The goalkeeper, who arrived at the capital's club at the age of 13, will definitely join the English club where he has spent the last few months.
His transfer, announced by RMC and which we can confirm, will be finalized on Monday or Tuesday.
West Ham had a purchase option of €12m.
This season, Areola, understudy of the Polish Lukasz Fabianski, has been aligned in the English League Cup, in the FA Cup and in the Europa League, where he reached the semi-finals.
It only has one league game.
Five seasons and 107 games with Paris
With Paris, Areola will have taken part in five seasons, played 107 games and been crowned champion of France in 2013, 2018, 2019 and 2020. His biggest season will have been that of 2017-2018 under the orders of Unai Emery.
In competition with Kevin Trapp or Gianluigi Buffon, he never managed to fully convince the various Parisian managers and coaches.
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This upcoming stability is perhaps good news for the goalkeeper as the World Cup in Qatar looms (21 November-18 December).
Third goalkeeper during the campaign in Russia in 2018, he is again applying for this position behind Hugo Lloris and Mike Maignan.
Called up in four matches in the recent League of Nations, Areola has three selections with the Blues, the last in a friendly match in Nantes in June 2019 against Bolivia (2-0).
With this departure, the Parisian club still has eight goalkeepers under contract, including obviously Gianliugi Donnarumma, Keylor Navas and Sergio Rico.