Aaron Ramsey will join Juventus next season on a four-year contract worth £300,000 a week, making him among the best-paid British footballers.

The 28-year-old midfielder signed the paperwork on Sunday and will complete a free transfer from Arsenal after 11 years at the London club. Ramsey was eligible to sign a pre-contract agreement with foreign clubs this month because he is out of contract in the summer. There is believed to be no signing-on fee in his deal but the total value of the contract is about £62 million.

Of the other British players to have made big moves abroad, Gareth Bale, Ramsey’s Wales team-mate, earns £350,000 a week after tax at Real Madrid while Wayne Rooney earns about £90,000 a week at DC United,