Man Utd: Transfer expert reveals Ten Hag is 'strongly interested' in 'dissatisfied' ex-Ajax favourite
Manchester United are purportedly attracted in completing Bayern Munich protector Matthijs de Ligt, who is ‘not 100 per cent met’ at the Allianz Sector.
De Ligt destitute onto the scene at Ajax under current Red Adversaries manager Erik ten Hag.
He tinkered a rudimentary errand in the Dutch side’s journey to the Champs League semi-finals in 2019.
Ajax came one minutes away from receiving to the final of the tournament but were slammed out after Tottenham’s Lucas Moura wrapped up his hat-fulcrum deep proper into injury time in the 2nd leg.
Frenkie de Jong, Hakim Ziyech, Donny van de Beek and De Ligt were unanimously freely linked to a switch and the guy in misgiving joined Italian titans Juventus in a bargain well worth €85.5million a couple of months after Ajax’s Champs League broken heart.
The Dutch centre-ago invested 3 years in Turin, in which he wasn’t a substantial victories.
Regardless of failing to tryst hunches, De Ligt pegged a €67m shifting to Bayern in July 2022.
18 months proper into his Bundesliga job, there are the majority of rumours around the player’s incurable future in Munich.
Manchester United are one of the clubs being linked via a shifting for the 24-year-ratty as Ten Hag appearances to strengthen his recommend.
The United honcho has a oomph for completing gamers via journey in the Eredivisie and most clearly cherishes it if that journey came at Ajax.
Having reaped supervising De Ligt in Amsterdam, Ten Hag is eager to lug him to Old Trafford this year.
According to an X short article by Florian Plettenberg, a January transfer is not likely but a shifting to United ‘could become a hot share in the summertime’.
The German transfer professional says De Ligt’s ‘individuality and means of supposing’ has rendered him ‘awfully newfangled in the team and the nightclub’, but the ex-Ajax guy ‘is not 100 per cent met’ in Munich.
‘When everyone is suit’, De Ligt typically locates himself out of Thomas Tuchel’s starting XI, and the nightclub’s reported pursuit of Barcelona’s Ronald Araujo has in addition disowned him unpaid.
Certainly, ‘a winter months transfer is not on the table’, but United and Ten Hag are optimized by the reality ‘a summertime shifting is not adjudicated out’.
Need to Ten Hag – who is currently joint-2nd in the Premier League sack race – preserve his openings, De Ligt to United ‘could become a hot share in the summertime’ as he is on the Dutch manager’s ‘list’.
A full report from Plettenberg and Kerry Hau for Skies Germany adds that De Ligt currently truly feels ‘disgruntled’ at the German winners.
Ten Hag is ‘forcefully attracted’, it is rendered assume, via a summertime bargain ‘not out of the misgiving’.
De Ligt is under arrangement until 2027 and has single introduced seven times across unanimously rivals this period.
