Middlesbrough have completed the signing of former Arsenal striker Chuba Akpom for £2.75million.
The 24-year-old joins from Greek club PAOK, where he scored 18 goals across his two seasons there and won the league and cup double in 2019.
Akpom has signed a three-year contract, with the option of a further year, and is Boro's fourth summer signing after Sam Morsy, Marcus Bettinelli and Grant Hall.
He will be at the Riverside Stadium on Saturday to watch his new team play Bournemouth in the Championship.
'I'm delighted to finally have got him,' said Boro manager Neil Warnock, who will coach his side against Bournemouth via Zoom following a positive Covid-19 test.
'He's been my No 1 choice. I've wanted him for a long time. I'd like to give a big thanks to [chief executive] Neil Bausor for getting it done.
'I told him what we were doing at the club and right from day one he wanted to come and I'm delighted.'
London-born Akpom joined Arsenal at the age of six and worked his way through their youth ranks.
He made 12 first-team appearances for the Gunners in all amid a succession of loan spells at Brentford, Coventry, Nottingham Forest, Hull, Brighton and Sint-Truiden.
Arsenal sold Akpom, who represented England up to under-21 level, to PAOK in August 2018.
He played a key role in their first Greek Super League title win in 34 years and scored the only goal in their cup final win over AEK Athens.
SawHotz
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Can't believe he's not crossed 25 till now. Ah, gone are the good old Wenger days.
wokacimrs
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aku was one of the good coming players I loved and am waiting to see him shine as wenger wanted him to
SawHotz
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why not official this not fair...
So u mean that if a player moves from Fleetwood Town to Salford City, it must be marked 'official' and put on the top headlines of All Football?
Vezonic22
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I'm just hearing about some of these players, even though many like Akpom have been around.
Mawdmty
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hmmmm not bad
the_Profe55or
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Nice piece of business gunners,.. We've still got more deadwood to offload so as to raise more money for both or either of these two before October 6! #COYG4ever!
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Yeah but some percentage of d money still got to our pocket
Juaelprsy
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he was a player of a Greek club,not Arsenal.
Anti786
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Who's that 😲
losnpsu
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Èdouard is the perfect striker for Arsenal
kodabiopsz
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Nice piece of business gunners,.. We've still got more deadwood to offload so as to raise more money for both or either of these two before October 6! #COYG4ever!
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we loan me to paok
Rodreego
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Nice piece of business gunners,.. We've still got more deadwood to offload so as to raise more money for both or either of these two before October 6! #COYG4ever!
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Middlesbrough signed him from PAOK not arsenal. he moved to PAOK from arsenal
uno_boy
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Just that small amount
the_Profe55or
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Nice piece of business gunners,.. We've still got more deadwood to offload so as to raise more money for both or either of these two before October 6! #COYG4ever!
tahcdlnrs
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why not official this not fair...