Soccer Football - Championship - Middlesbrough vs Aston Villa - Riverside Stadium, Middlesbrough, Britain - December 30, 2017 Middlesbrough’s Ben Gibson in action Action Images/John Clifton
BURNLEY, England (Reuters) - Burnley have signed central defender Ben Gibson from Championship club Middlesbrough for a fee of 15 million pounds ($19.51 million) with the Premier League club making their first move of the transfer window.
The Clarets said that the fee for Gibson equals the club record transfer paid last year for striker Chris Wood and that Gibson had signed a four-year contract.
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