Theo Walcott believes it was time for a fresh start after spending 12 years with Arsenal.

The Englishman made a £20m switch to Everton on Wednesday.

After spending the first six months of this season playing in the Europa League and League Cup, Walcott knew it was time to leave the Emirates.

"I'm dead excited and I just want to do what I do best which is playing football and expressing myself because I'm excited again, I really am," he told the club's website.

"I do really believe that I'm going to give it my all, which is what I always have done, and this place is going to get even more out of me.

"There's something about this move which I've just felt good about.

"It felt like it was time for me to move on [from Arsenal]. It was sad but it's exciting at the same time and I want to push Everton to win things as they have done before.

"I want to be part of something and I feel like this place will offer me that."