Barcelona have completed the signing of Clement Lenglet from Sevilla, the club have announced.
The Spanish title holders have paid the £31.7million release clause in the centre-back's contract.
Lenglet only spent one season in Sevilla, joining from Nancy for just £4.4million last summer but impressed sufficiently with his defensive skills and his ball-playing ability.
Lenglet has signed a five-year deal at the Nou Camp and will have a release clause worth £265million.
Barcelona themselves describe the player as "one of the most promising defenders on the planet" and say he "completes a spectacular defence" as he fits in along with fellow centre-backs Gerard Pique, Samuel Umtiti and Thomas Vermaelen.
The signing does, though, call into question the future of current Barcelona defender Yerry Mina, who wasn't named among their centre-backs in the statement.
The 23-year-old impressed at the World Cup, where he scored three times for Colombia.
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