Wednesday 1 July 2015 17:46, UK
Southampton have terminated the contract of record signing Dani Osvaldo.
Striker Osvaldo joined the Saints in the summer of 2013 for a fee of around £15m but, after a bright start to his career in England, the wheels soon fell off.
By the end of January 2014 he had been banned for three games for violent conduct, fined and suspended by the club for a training ground incident - he was alleged to have head-butted team-mate Jose Fonte - and loaned out to Juventus.
He returned to Italy at the start of last season, this time with Inter Milan, and scored seven goals in 18 matches before further off-field trouble.
Osvaldo failed to turn up for training on two successive days and, after giving no reason for his absence, he was suspended by the Serie A club and eventually sent back to England.
A loan move to Argentina with Boca Juniors followed, but that deal came to an end on June 30 and Southampton have cut their losses with two years remaining on his contract.
