Aymeric Laporte has become Manchester City’s record signing after the league leaders signed from Athletic Bilbao for a jaw dropping £57m (around 65 million euros). City exercised Laporte’s release clause and the Agen born defender has signed a long term deal that will keep him at the Etihad Stadium till 2023.
What will be Laporte’s shirt number at Man City?
Aymeric Laporte will wear the No.14 jersey at Man City. He wore the No.4 jersey at Athletic Bilbao
Laporte becomes City’s sixth signing of the 2017/18 season and his transfer fee eclipses the previous record £55m City paid for Kevin de Bruyne. It also means that Pep Guardiola has now effectively spent more than £200m on defenders (Mendy, Stones, Laporte and Walker), and more than £250m if one includes Danilo and Otamendi.
Laporte (May 27, 1994) is just a day younger than John Stones (May 28, 1994), with the duo now likely to be the first choice central defensive pairing for Pep Guardiola