Scottish champions Celtic complete deal for Manchester City defender Dedryck Boyata

Celtic have signed Manchester City defender Dedryck Boyata on a four-year contract.

The 24-year-old Belgian is understood to have cost the Scottish champions a fee of £1.5million.

Boyata has been at City since 2009, but made just 13 appearances for the Premier League club, and has spent loan spells at FC Twente and Bolton.

“It feels really good. Celtic are a very big club and it feels good to be a part of it,” he told his new team's official website.

“The manager came to see me in Manchester and I spoke to him about having me here and all the ideas he had for me playing for the team.

“So I was very pleased with his plans and from that point I thought that moving to Celtic would be a good idea and we tried to do everything right for me to move here.”