Swansea City sign Atletico Madrid striker Borja Baston for a club record £15.5m

The 23-year-old striker has moved to the south Wales club on a four-year deal for a fee that eclipses the club’s previous biggest transfer – £12m for Wilfried Bony.

Borja spent the majority of his Atletico career out on loan, scoring 22 goals to help Zaragoza into La Liga in 2014-15 and then netting 18 times for Eibar in the Spanish top-flight last season.

The forward’s arrival at the Liberty Stadium follows hot on the heels of Fernando Llorente’s arrival from Sevilla and adds to the club’s firepower after the loss of Andre Ayew and Bafetimbi Gomis during the summer transfer window.

Borja could be available for Swansea’s first game of the season, against Burnley on Saturday, and will wear the No. 10 shirt this season.

Eurosport's Spanish editor Jorge Ordas: "Borja played for Atletico’s youth teams at the same time as Alvaro Morata, and it is rumoured that Morata left Atletico because he wanted to play and couldn’t get in the team ahead. ‘Baston’ is not his surname but his father’s one – Miguel Baston played for Atletico youth teams as a goalkeeper in the 90’s but never in an official game with the first team.

"Borja, as he prefers to be known, only played 20 minutes in an official game for Atletico. It was in 2010, just after beating Fulham in the Europa League final in Hamburg. Unfortunately he suffered a ligament injury in his knee and was out of football for six months.

"Atletico fans had hoped that Borja would play for the club this season after an amazing year with Eibar, but he has never seemed to fit with Diego Simeone’s style of play. Simeone never gave him an opportunity and he had to go out on loan, often to Segunda Division teams, for game time. His first season in La Liga with Eibar was a big success.

"He’s strong and a natural goalscorer and could fit well into the Premier League… but it’s odd to sign both Llorente and Borja. They are both strikers whole prefer to play as the lone striker, close to the opposite goal.

"The main thing Atletico fans won’t like about this deal is that there isn’t any ‘buy-back’ clause."