Eze Eberechi
Eberechi Oluchi Eze is an English professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or left winger for the England national team. A product of several English academies, Eze began his senior career with Queens Park Rangers in 2016. His breakthrough came in the 2019–20 season, in which he scored 14 goals and was named the club’s Player of the Year. He was subsequently signed by Crystal Palace for £17 million. He went on to make over 150 appearances for the club, and scored the only goal in the 2025 FA Cup final to win the club’s first ever major trophy. After winning the 2025 FA Community Shield with Crystal Palace, he was signed by Arsenal for £67.5 million. A former England youth international, Eze made his senior debut in 2023, and later represented his country at UEFA Euro 2024, finishing runner-up to eventual champion Spain. Eze started his football career at Arsenal before being released when he was thirteen and then went on to join Fulham and Reading. Eze then appeared as a youth player at Millwall, where he signed a two-year scholarship with the club.[10] Eze quickly progressed through the under-18 and reserve teams. It was announced in April 2016 that Eze would be leaving Millwall at the end of the 2015–16 season after not being offered a professional contract. Following his release from Millwall, Eze continued studying in college before trialling successfully with Championship club Queens Park Rangers, impressing the club’s technical director Chris Ramsey. Eze completed his signing for QPR on 3 August 2016. On 7 January 2017, Eze made his first-team debut in an FA Cup tie against Blackburn Rovers.
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Crystal Palace F.C.
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These boots were worn by Eberechi Eze with Crystal Palace during the seasons 2022/2023 and 2023/2024. Eze signed for the club on a five-year contract on 28 August 2020 for a transfer fee reportedly around £17 million. QPR had rejected a £12 million bid from Palace earlier in the month. He was given a number 25 shirt ahead of the new season. On 12 September, he made his Palace debut, coming on as an 81st-minute substitute for Jeffrey Schlupp in a 1–0 win against Southampton in the opening game of the season. Eze scored his first goal for Palace on 7 November from a free kick in a 4–1 home league win over Leeds United. Eze scored his first goal of the 2022–23 season on 9 October 2022, weaving through tackles on the edge of the box before finishing with a low shot, which got Palace a 2–1 win against Leeds United. He scored in his following home match on 18 October, heading in a cross by Michael Olise a minute into the second half, which levelled the game in an eventual 2–1 win against Wolverhampton Wanderers. Eze entered a run of form following the reappointment of manager Roy Hodgson in March 2023, scoring six goals in 10 games (including braces against Southampton and AFC Bournemouth, finishing the season on double figures and as the club’s top scorer of the season, having played in every game of Palace’s Premier League campaign. On 10 November 2023, Eze extended his contract with Crystal Palace until 2027. On 30 December, he scored in a 3–1 win against Brentford, helping end an eight-match winless run, and scored a brace in his next home game, a 3–2 win over Sheffield United on 30 January 2024. He scored the winner in a 1–0 victory over Liverpool on 14 April; the win was Liverpool’s first Anfield defeat in 28 games, and was Palace’s first away win in 10. In the final game of the season on 19 May, he scored a brace in a 5–0 thrashing of fourth-placed Aston Villa, becoming Crystal Palace’s fourth-highest goalscorer in its Premier League history (after Wilfried Zaha, Christian Benteke and Luka Milivojević). Despite injury woes limiting Eze’s appearances in the 2023–24 season, he set a new personal record at the club, scoring 11 goals and providing six assists in 31 matches in all competitions. His partnership with Michael Olise and Jean-Philippe Mateta brought about the resurgence of Crystal Palace in the latter stages of the 2023–24 season.
