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		</div><p>Burnley have announced the signing of Chris Wood from Leeds on a four-year deal for a club-record fee.</p>
<p>The New Zealand striker rose to prominence by finishing as the Championship&#8217;s leading scorer with 27 goals last season and will now get his chance to shine in the top flight under Sean Dyche.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;My ambition has been to play in the Premier League for years,&#8221;</i> Wood told Clarets Player HD.</p>
<p>The Clarets did not disclose the sum paid to Leeds for Wood but confirmed it was more than their previous record, reportedly around £13million for Robbie Brady from Norwich earlier this year.</p>
<p>They secure a frontman who had played for seven Championship clubs before settling at Leeds, where he followed up his 13-goal haul in 2015/16 with an explosive tally in the last campaign.</p>
<p>He picked up where he left off by scoring in Leeds&#8217; opening game of the season at Bolton but ruled himself out of last weekend&#8217;s win at Sunderland after declaring &#8220;I didn&#8217;t feel it was right to play&#8221; amid speculation about his future.</p>
<p>The 25-year-old, who has had brief spells in the Premier League with West Brom and Leicester, will be available for Burnley&#8217;s Carabao Cup second-round tie against Blackburn on Wednesday.</p>
<p>He said: <i>&#8220;This is a club that wants to stay in the Premier League for years to come and it&#8217;s going that way.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had tastes of being in there but I&#8217;ve never had the chance to give it a proper bash.</p>
<p>&#8220;Coming here I feel I&#8217;ve got a proper opportunity to do that. I&#8217;ve never started a Premier League game and this what I want to do.</p>
<p>&#8220;The squad has done fantastically over the last couple of years to put themselves in the position they are now.</p>
<p>&#8220;There have been some great additions this summer, which I&#8217;m sure has given everyone an added boost, to move forward and cement us as a Premier League team and looking on further up the league.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Wood, who has scored 20 times in 52 appearances for New Zealand, added: <i>&#8220;The manager has given me a lot of confidence and backed me to bring me here, which is what you want.</p>
<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve still got a lot of good years ahead of me. I&#8217;ve got lots of ambitions to achieve in the future. I&#8217;ve got goals and dreams that I want to achieve and it starts here.&#8221;</i></p>
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