Everton was signed by goalkeeper Robin Olsen in a season from AS Roma.
The 30-year-old Swede becomes the club’s sixth signing.
The Blues had already signed young side Niels Nkounkou, midfielders Allan and Abdoulaye Doucoure, game creator James Rodriguez and England under-21 central defender Ben Godfrey.
Star of the quarter-finals of the 2018 Swedish World Cup, Olsen joined Rome after the tournament in Russia after keeping 3 blank leaves in 4 games to his country to triumph in the last eight.
His time in Italy came after a successful two-and-a-half-season era in Denmark, where Olsen won consecutive doubles in the championship and cup with FC Copenhagen.
The 6-foot-5 forward had already had a brief stint in Greece with PAOK, having his career in his home country with clubs like Malmo FF, which he helped qualify for the organizing stages of the Champions League in 2014. .
Following the arrival of Spanish foreign goalkeeper Pau López in Rome in the summer of 2019, Olsen traveled to Cagliari on loan last season, 17 Serie A matches to climb to the 27 he had amassed in the Italian elite in the past campaign.
Internationally, Olsen made his debut for Sweden in January 2015 and was one of the country’s heroes when he kept his World Cup playoff victory over Italy in November 2017.
Despite shoulder surgery three and a half months before the tournament in Russia, Olsen recovered and breathed before Sweden’s eighth round in England.
Olsen arrives at Everton after accumulating 38 international matches and is the deadline for the club’s signature after confirmation of Godfrey’s 22-year-old arrival from Norwich City the previous Monday.