Arsenal have released a statement thanking David Ospina after he completed his move away from the club to join Napoli.

The 29-year-old Colombia international signed for the Gunners from French side Nice in 2014 for about £3m, but he has never really established himself as the clubs first choice stopper and has been seen as a solid back-up stopper by Arsene Wenger.

And after new boss Unai Emery splashed out £22 million to sign Bernd Leno from Bayer Leverkusen, he has fallen even further down the pecking order, meaning he would have been very unlikely to get any game time this coming season.

Now he has been let go for the next 12 months, with Napoli very happy to take the Colombian on a season long-loan with a view to a permanent deal next summer.

In a statement on the club website, Arsenal said they wished Ospina “the very best” for the season.

Ospina, Colombia’s first-choice goalkeeper, was on the receiving end of England’s first World Cup penalty shootout success in the last-16 tie between the two nations in Russia last month.

Here is what we think.

Ospina may have not be the most eye-catching of goalkeepers and one that would excite fans, but he done a solid job for Arsenal over the years and earned the right to play a part in the final years of Wenger.

But this move comes at the right time as he needed to leave Arsenal to try and find a club that will make him the number one, as he was never going to get that at the Emirates.