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Everton have completed the signing of Romelu Lukaku for a club record fee on a five-year deal.

The 21-year-old striker is flying into Liverpool today and the club are set to announce his transfer from Chelsea early this evening.

Everton are understood to have paid around £25m for the Belgium international who has been manager Roberto Martinez's number one transfer target this summer.

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Blues chairman Bill Kenwright is believed to have made a breakthrough in negotiations with the Stamford Bridge club late last night and now Everton's long pursuit of the player they had on loan last season has come to a successful conclusion.

Lukaku tweeted “time to write a new chapter” earlier today alongside a picture of him on a private jet bound for England.

Blues will rejoice at the news that the popular hitman, who scored 15 Premier League goals last term, is to become Everton's third signing of the summer following the acquisition of Gareth Barry and Muhamed Besic.