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		</div><p>Everton have completed the club-record signing of Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea, for a fee believed to be around £45million.</p>
<p>The 27-year-old Iceland midfielder has put pen to paper on a five-year contract and becomes the Toffees&#8217; eighth summer arrival.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Hopefully I will continue to create goals and score goals for the team and contribute to the kind of success we&#8217;re seeking at the club,&#8221;</i> Sigurdsson told evertontv.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;This is an ambitious club and it is clear we are moving in a really good direction. The most important thing is that this team keeps winning games and climbing the table &#8211; and does that throughout the season.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Sigurdsson said the prospect of working with Everton boss Ronald Koeman was one of the main reasons for switching to Goodison Park.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He was a great player, one of the top players of his time,&#8221;</i> Sigurdsson added.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;Now he is a really good manager and his vision for Everton is clear. He has built up a really good squad here, with strong players, both young and experienced.</p>
<p>&#8220;This was a key factor for me. Ultimately, that is a dream of mine and everyone at this club. I know the supporters and players would agree with that.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Sigurdsson began his professional career in England with Reading and joined German side Hoffenheim in 2010.</p>
<p>He moved on loan to Swansea at the start of 2012 and joined Tottenham in a £6.8million deal six months later, before returning to south Wales in 2014.</p>
<p>Sigurdsson, Swansea&#8217;s player of the year for the past two seasons, has made 50 appearances for Iceland and played a key role in their run to the Euro 2016 quarter-finals.</p>
<p>His proposed move has dragged on for much of the summer, with Swansea initially valuing their star man at £50million.</p>
<p>Finally securing him now, at a slightly lower price, takes Everton&#8217;s spending since the end of last season to over £130million.</p>
<p>Sigurdsson follows the likes of Jordan Pickford, Michael Keane, Davy Klaassen and Sandro Ramirez as another multi-million-pound acquisition, while the club also secured the free transfer arrival of Wayne Rooney.</p>
<p>Sigurdsson, who scored nine goals and provided 13 assists in the league last term, pulled out of Swansea&#8217;s pre-season tour to the United States after Everton&#8217;s interest became clear.</p>
<p>He rejoined first-team training upon Swansea&#8217;s return from the States but did not figure in their Premier League opener at Southampton on Saturday.</p>
<p>Sigurdsson will not feature in Thursday&#8217;s Europa League play-off against Hajduk Split at Goodison Park, but Koeman indicated he could make his Everton debut in Monday&#8217;s league clash with Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;He will not be involved (on Thursday),&#8221;</i> Koeman said. <i>&#8220;Maybe for Monday, I do not know. I need to talk to him and know what his physical state is. Let&#8217;s wait to see how the fitness is.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Koeman said Everton are waiting to learn the severity of an apparent hamstring problem suffered by Ross Barkley.</p>
<p>Reports have suggested Barkley, whose future with the club remains unclear, is facing six weeks out due to a hamstring tear.</p>
<p>Asked about that, Koeman said: <i>&#8220;He stopped training, I think it was last Monday. It looks like a hamstring injury but we need to do more tests &#8230; to know exactly what the injury is. We need to wait.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Midfielder Barkley, who is entering the last year of his contract, appears destined to leave the club having turned down the offer of a new deal.</p>
<p>He has been linked with a move to Tottenham, but Koeman said last week there had been no offers for the England international.</p>
<p>Koeman, who has let midfielder Gareth Barry join West Brom, also signalled he would like to strengthen in the current transfer window beyond the capture of Sigurdsson.</p>
<p>He added on Wednesday: <i>&#8220;Still we are looking in two positions to make the squad even stronger than it is at this stage.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Meanwhile, Hajduk boss Joan Carrillo has acknowledged Everton&#8217;s strength ahead of Thursday&#8217;s European clash, but feels there are weaknesses his team can take advantage of.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;All the games with this team, we play to win,&#8221;</i> Carrillo said at a pre-match press conference.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;I do not have another method or philosophy.</p>
<p>&#8220;I know Everton have a very good team. They are in the Premier League. And we are talking about signing one player for 50 million euros. But football is 11 against 11.</p>
<p>&#8220;We know the good things of Everton but also the bad things, and we have worked on this.</p>
<p>&#8220;I am an optimist. We will see &#8211; (on Thursday, it) is 11 against 11.&#8221;</i></p>
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