Football Manager 2016: 20 Wonderkids You Will Need To Sign
9. Aymeric Laporte
Aymeric Laporte is the only non-Spanish player at Athletic Bilbao, who are famed for their Basque-only signing policy. Laporte is only the second Frenchman to play for the club in their history, after Bixente Lizarazu, but qualifies for Bilbao's strategy as he started out through a French-Basque academy before rising up through the Spanish side's youth system. The 21-year-old is an established member of the Bilbao team, but he could still be prised away by a top reputation club in both the real and virtual worlds, with a £36.5 million buyout clause in his new contract which runs until 2019. If he really does develop into one of the best centre backs in the world, that won't seem like a steep price to pay in the future.
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