Burnley have signed defender Ben Gibson from Middlesbrough for a joint club record fee of £15 million.

Gibson has signed a four-year deal at Turf Moor and will compete with established pairing Ben Mee and James Tarkowski for a place in the back four.

The 25-year-old, who is nephew to Boro chairman Steve Gibson, went down with the Teesside club in 2016-17 – his only previous campaign in the top flight.

Despite that he won plenty of admirers for his performances and was called up to the England squad by Gareth Southgate in March 2017.

Sean Dyche, the Burnley manager, has been on Gibson’s trail for some time but needed to match the fee paid for previous record signing Chris Wood to get his first deal of the summer over the line.

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