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Albert Gudmundsson has completed his transfer from Fiorentina to Lazio, on loan for €1m with a reported option to buy at the end of the season for another €12m. The Iceland international also had other interesting proposals on the table, including from Bologna and Atalanta, but gave a clear preference for the Aquile. Gudmundsson is a new Lazio player According to various sources including Sky Sport Italia, the cost of the operation is €1m for the loan and an option to make it permanent at the end of the season for another €12m. The 29-year-old was in Rome this afternoon to undergo his medical tests and was given the all-clear to put pen to paper. Gudmundsson first came to Italian football for Genoa in January 2022 from AZ Alkmaar at a cost of €1.5m. His value sky-rocketed thanks to those performances, earning a loan at €5.85m to Fiorentina in the summer of 2024, with obligation to buy for another €16.8m a year later. The loan was organised because he was at the time facing a sexual assault trial in Iceland, and the Viola wanted some guarantees it wouldn’t affect his future. The player was cleared in his homeland of all charges. Meanwhile, Lazio have released Samuel Gigot as a free agent, terminating his contract by mutual consent.