Arsenal reached an settlement with Crystal Palace to signal Eberechi Eze for £60 million, experiences switch insider Fabrizio Romano.
The Gunners overtook native rivals Tottenham Hotspur, who have been in superior negotiations to signal the attacking midfielder.
Arsenal matched the monetary bundle provided by Spurs, and Eze, a boyhood Arsenal fan who performed for the membership’s academy, reportedly made the ultimate choice on which of the north London groups he most well-liked to hitch.
Private phrases are near being finalized, based on The Athletic’s David Ornstein. The 27-year-old is anticipated to play in Palace’s Convention League playoff match in opposition to Fredrikstad on Thursday earlier than present process a medical with Arsenal, Ornstein provides.
Eze would turn out to be Arsenal’s seventh signing of a busy summer season, the membership’s first beneath new sporting director Andrea Berta.
Arsenal’s accelerated transfer for Eze got here after the staff discovered of an damage to Kai Havertz. The German ahead will reportedly miss time with a knee problem, which spurred the title hopefuls again into motion within the switch market.
Eze has made 169 appearances for Crystal Palace since his switch from Queen’s Park Rangers in 2020, scoring 40 targets.
His potential arrival would give Mikel Arteta one other artistic playmaker who can function in a number of positions.
Although most comfy as a No. 10, Eze will seemingly slot into Arsenal’s lineup as a left-sided attacker, additional strengthening a positional group that already contains Gabriel Martinelli and summer season signing Noni Madueke.
