Eze rounds off team move to give Palace shock lead over Man City
It is a scenario that happens to thousands of aspiring footballers around the world. Eberechi Eze, aged 13 and with tears in his eyes, was told he was not wanted at the club he dreamed of playing for - in his case, Arsenal.
For many of those young players, that rejection is the end of their football dream. Not, however, for the resilient Eze.
Via multiple failed trials before spells at Queens Park Rangers and Crystal Palace, the playmaker looks set to come home 14 years later - as an England international - in a £60m move.
"I know so many people who got released from one club, got released from Arsenal, and that was it - they stopped playing," he told BBC Sport in May - days before scoring the Palace winner in the FA Cup final against Manchester City in May.
