Manchester City has signed defender Abdulkader Khosanov on a four-and-a-half-year contract from French club Lens.
The 20-year-old has joined for a fee of €40m (£33.8m) plus add-ons and is the first player from Uzbekistan to join a Premier League club.
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He said: “I am very happy to be joining Manchester City, a club I have enjoyed watching for a long time.
“This team is full of the best players in the world, and I can't wait to meet them and play alongside them.
“And of course Pep Guardiola is one of the greatest coaches of all time and I am very excited to learn from him and improve my game even more.
“It is a very proud moment for me and my family to join a great club like Manchester City, and I am fully prepared for this challenge.”
City director of football Txiki Begiristain added: “We are very pleased to have him join us and we are all very excited about what he will bring to us.”
“For such a young defender, Abdelkader is already very intelligent, as well as being strong, aggressive and very quick.”
