"?Borussia Dortmund have continued their early summer spending spree and have completed the signing of highly rated Portuguese left-back Raphaël Guerreiro.
Guerreiro, who is currently starring for Portugal at Euro 2016, will arrive in Dortmund from Lorient on a four-year contract until 2020 and will provide competition for the long-serving defender Marcel Schmelzer.
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The French-born 22-year-old, a product of the famed Clairefontaine academy, had been linked to Liverpool, but can now look forward to the joys of Champions League football and fighting Bayern Munich for the Bundesliga title.
After getting his first-team break at Caen, Guerreiro joined Lorient in 2013 and played over 100 times for the club in his three years. He made his international debut for Portugal in November 2014, despite not speaking the language, and scored his first goal in a friendly against Argentina in only his second appearance a few days later.
The player appeared in 34 of Lorient's 38 Ligue 1 games last season, helping the club achieve a 15th place finish and avoid relegation for a second successive campaign.
"Raphaël Guerreiro is a technically skilled player who feels in several positions at home. We are very happy that he chose Borussia Dortmund," sporting director Michael Zorc told BVB.de.
Guerreiro joins the growing list of young stars to have signed for Thomas Tuchel's team already since the 2015/16 campaign ended, following the arrivals of Ousmane Dembele and Emre Mor among several others.
Add those to the likes of Christian Pulisic, Moritz Leitner, Julian Weigl, Matthias Ginter and Felix Passlack and Dortmund are building a side for the future.
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