City sign Laporte

Aymeric Laporte has completed his move from Athletic Bilbao to Manchester City.

The Spanish club confirmed the defender's buy-out clause, believed to be around £57million, had been paid.

Laporte, a 23-year-old France Under-21 international, has signed a five-year contract to play at the Etihad.

Laporte told the club's website:

I am very happy to be here. City are a club with a lot of ambition and they are one of the best teams in Europe.

I am looking forward to working under Pep Guardiola and trying to help the club to achieve success.

It means a lot that the club have shown faith in me and I am excited to get started.''

It's a club record signing, eclipsing the £ 54 million paid for Kevin De Bruyne in 2015 and it also makes Laporte the second-most expensive defender in the world after Liverpool's van Dijk.