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Sevilla make sixth signing as Kounde arrives from Bordeaux

Sevilla have completed their fifth signing of the close season by bringing in Jules Kounde from Bordeaux in a deal reportedly worth €25 million (‎£22.4 million/$28.2 million).

The centre-back impressed in his second season as a first-team player at Bordeaux, helping the club to a 14th-place finish in Ligue 1 in 2018-19 and starting in all but one of their top-flight fixtures.

His arrival at the Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan is expected to take Sevilla's close-season spending to over €90 million (‎£80.7 million/$101.5 million) as the club build a squad they hope will improve on last season's sixth-place finish in La Liga.