Arsenal complete £26.5m signing of Uruguay midfielder Lucas Torreira

• Player’s arrival from Sampdoria delayed after World Cup
• Torreira will wear Mesut Özil’s number 11 shirt
  

Arsenal have made their fourth signing this summer under new manager Unai Emery by completing a €30m (£26.5m) deal for Sampdoria’s Uruguayan defensive midfielder Lucas Torreira.

The 22-year-old, who passed a medical at the club’s London Colney training complex on Tuesday, will not, though, be joining up with the Arsenal squad until early August having featured in all five matches of Uruguay’s run to the World Cup quarter-finals.

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