Wolverhampton Wanderers will officially sign midfielder Tommy Doyle in a £4.3million permanent deal on July 1 after the club activated the option in his loan agreement.
Wolves triggered the option this week and 22-year-old Doyle will move officially from Manchester City when the summer transfer window opens.
He will join on a four-year contract that also includes an option for a further two seasons.
An Under-21 European Championship winner with England last summer, Doyle joined Wolves on loan a few weeks later in a deal that was unofficially linked to Matheus Nunes’s £53million move in the opposite direction.
He has made 30 appearances for Wolves in all competitions, including 17 starts, and scored one goal in the FA Cup third-round draw at Brentford.
Sporting director Matt Hobbs said: “We’ve never seen Tommy as a player on loan, and he hasn’t acted like one.
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“He’s gradually earned more minutes and become more important, which I think is an ideal first year. What he offers to our midfield is something different to the others, so there was a huge amount of inevitability to this.
“He buys into who we are as a club and what we’re trying to create culturally within the group. He’s a great player to have for what we’re trying to achieve off the pitch and he gives us so much on the pitch, so he’s the exact type of player I think Wolves should be signing.
“If you look at the type of players we like to sign as a football club, they generally haven’t reached their ceiling yet and have loads more to come.
“Tommy is a fraction of the player he will become, with the more he gets used to the league and the greater his understanding gets. I’m really excited for now but also his future at Wolves.”
Wolves are next in action away at City on Saturday.
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