Alex Iwobi has joined Everton from Arsenal on a five-year contract.
The deal was announced late on deadline day with the transfer fee potentially reaching £40million.
Iwobi joined Arsenal’s academy when he was nine and broke into the first team under Arsene Wenger in 2015. He signed a new long term contract last summer, but both player and club felt it best to part company this summer.
The 23-year-old made 35 Premier League appearances last season, but faced the difficult task of cementing a spot in Unai Emery’s first-team this season due to the arrivals of Dani Ceballos from Real Madrid and Nicolas Pepe from Lille.
Arsenal had initially rejected a £30m approach from Everton, but accepted an improved offer for the Nigeria international, with the Toffees turning their attention to Iwobi after missing out on Wilfried Zaha.
It will not have been easy for Iwobi, who joined Arsenal when in primary school, to leave the Gunners.
Speaking in 2018, he said: “As a kid, even when I was going to school, to say I played for Arsenal was an honour. To actually wear the Arsenal shirt and walk out at Emirates Stadium and see all the fans is an amazing feeling.”
He becomes Marco Silva’s seventh summer signing at Everton.
