Burnley have completed the signing of Derby defender Tyrone Mears, the club have announced.

The Clarets will pay around £500,000 for the 26-year-old and have secured Mears on a three-year deal.

Mears joins the Barclays Premier League newcomers after a spell on loan at Marseille last season.

"We are delighted to get Tyrone," Clarets boss Owen Coyle told the club's website, burnleyfootballclub.com.

"He is a player with real pace and we have been looking for that in the full-back areas.

"He is hungry, still relatively young and desperate to do well."