Arsenal pulled off a big move late in the summer transfer window by signing England forward Eberechi Eze, who was a reported target of north London rival Tottenham.

Eze joined from Crystal Palace on Saturday for a reported initial fee of 60 million pounds ($80 million). That took Arsenal’s spending in this summer transfer window to around 250 million pounds ($335 million), second only to Liverpool across the whole of European soccer.

For the 27-year-old Eze, it marks a return to the club where he spent some years as a youth-team player being being released at the age of 13.

Fans chanted “one of our own” and gave Eze a standing ovation when he walked out onto the field before kickoff at Arsenal’s Premier League home match against Leeds, wearing his new team jersey with the number 10 on t

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