Arsenal have completed the signing of England international Eberechi Eze from Crystal Palace for an initial £60 million, with performance-related add-ons taking the total package to roughly €69-78 million. Paperwork was finalised on 23 August and the 27-year-old will wear the No. 10 shirt at the Emirates Stadium. People familiar with the talks said Arsenal quietly reached a provisional agreement with Palace as early as 10 August, then activated terms matching the player’s recently expired release clause after Tottenham Hotspur struggled to conclude their own negotiations. Board approval arrived in a mid-week meeting and the club moved swiftly to secure signatures once Crystal Palace chairman Steve Parish accepted the higher bid. Eze, who registered 14 goals and 12 assists in 43 appearances last season, returns to the club whose academy he left at 13 and is expected to add creativity to Mikel Arteta’s attack. The collapse of Tottenham’s pursuit marks a second late-window setback for chairman Daniel Levy, intensifying scrutiny of the north-London club’s recruitment strategy.