Ebereechi Eze has already become an icon for Arsenal fans without lighting a finger.
The winger is immortalized in a wall painting on a tunnel wall near the Emirates Stadium in North Londs – and he has not even signed for Arsenal! Anonymous artist Northbanksy claimed responsibility for the nocturnal surprise, which Eze displays in an Arsenal kit.
Arsenal left Tottenham Red-Faced on Wednesday evening when they in principle reached an agreement with Crystal Palace to sign Eze, 27.
Eze looked traces after they have spent 10 days negotiating a deal worth £ 55 million plus add-on-us for Arsenal to creep in at the last minute with a bid worth £ 60 million.
But the transfer is not yet complete and the artists will have an almighty scrub on their hands when the Arsenal deal of Eze comes through.
Memorials are usually earned with a special performance. Eze was overwhelmed by emotion last year when a spray painting from him in Bermondsey, Zuid -Londen, near where he grew up, was unveiled in a residential area after making the Euro 2024 team of England.
Arsenal accelerated their movement for Eze after Kai Havertz's knee injury made it clear that they still needed an attacker. Havertz can be out for a longer period.
Despite the sudden development, Arsenal has actually laid the foundation for the move for some time.
Sports director Andrea Berta and manager Mikel Arteta met Eze last month and he was sold on the idea of ​​moving to the Gunners, but an offer did not come true at that time.
Eze is an Arsenal fan of the boy and was released in their youth system before he was released at the age of 13.
His release clause of £ 60 million, plus £ 8 million in bonuses, expired last week.
Daily Mail Sport understands that Spurs has agreed to Palace's requirements on Wednesday and has also agreed the conditions with Eze. The player wanted to complete the move at that stage.
Palace, however, is shown that Eze remains available for their play-off first stage of the Conference League on the Norwegian side Fredrikstad on Thursday evening.
Arsenal then entered on Wednesday afternoon.
The Gunners had previously signed the 27-year-old England-International in the window and knew they had his preference, but after their £ 63 million spending on Viktor Gyokeres, they wanted to concentrate on expenditure before they added another left-sided attacker.
There is a dismay in Tottenham about how things have folded away, but there is little conviction that there could have been little more that they could have done.
Tottenham moved to Eze after James Maddison was excluded with a serious knee injury for most of the season.
The conversations were progressing, but stuck when the palace climbed for a suitable replacement, in which Spurs even understood that they had presented Richarlison Forwarlison as part of the deal to help make negotiations make progress.
Spurs inability to close the deal will cause further criticism of fans, after the club missed Morgan Gibbs-Witte from Nottingham Forest this summer.
The club remains interested in the winger of Manchester City Savinho and Yoane Wissa van Brentford, but both clubs are reluctant to sell. Eze is training with Palace prior to tonight's game, together with Liverpool -target Marc Guehi.
On Wednesday afternoon Crystal Palace -Baas Oliver Glasner said: “They will play a crucial part as long as they are here.”