Fornals pays own release clause

Talented attacking midfielder Pablo Fornals paid a 12 million euros release clause himself to leave Malaga and join Villarreal on a five-year deal yesterday.

"Pablo Fornals has executed the payment of the clause of termination that linked him to the club,” Malaga said on their website..

Malaga coach Michel Gonzalez was not happy about the transfer.

“Pablo leaves us, another one," he wrote on Twitter. "He said goodbye with his honesty and usual humanity: crying from sadness and not happiness. There must be a reason."