He has made Eduardo Alves da Silva Arsenal's first signing since Thierry Henry left the Emirates Stadium.

The Gunners have swooped to sign the 24-year-old Croatian international striker from Dinamo Zagreb.

The fee for the player who scored against England in a Euro 2008 qualifier in October is undisclosed, but he has signed a four-year contract with the Gunners.

He will be unveiled as an Arsenal player after completing a medical at the club.

Da Silva was born in Rio de Janiero, Brazil, but moved to Croatia when he was 15, and took Croatian nationality at the age of 22.

He joined Dinamo Zagreb in 1998 and spent 1999 and 2000 on loan to Brazilian club Bangu Atlético Clube, returning to Dinamo for the 2001-02 season.

In the 2002-03 season he was loaned to Inter Zaprešić, where he scored 10 goals in 15 domestic league games.

Known as Eduardo or "Dudu," on his return to Dinamo Zagreb he became a regular member of the first-team and scored 73 goals in 104 League appearances for the club.

When Eduardo scored twice in the Zagreb derby on May 12th this year, he became the all-time leading scorer of Croatia's First League, breaking a 13-year-old record of 29 goals set by former Dinamo striker Goran Vlaović in the 1993-94 season. Eduardo finished the league season with 34 goals from 32 appearances, and he is also the first player to score a hat-trick in a derby between Dinamo and Hajduk Split, a game Dinamo won 3-0 on May 19th, 2007.

He has scored seven goals for his country - and has the distinction of scoring the first competitive goal at the Emirates when Arsenal beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-1, for a 5-1 aggregate victory, in last season's Champions League third qualifying round.

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