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Dutch defender De Ligt looks set to reunite with old coach Ten Hag
Dutch defender De Ligt looks set to be reunited with old coach Ten Hag(Getty Images)
By Ben Crawford
04:30, 5 Jul 2024Updated08:06, 5 Jul 2024
Manchester United are set to bring in new recruits this transfer window on the back of extending manager Erik ten Hag’s stay at Old Trafford.
While departures are set to be plentiful at United this summer, the arrivals lounge may also be busy as the new hierarchy looks to continue building the club for success.
A bid for Everton’s Jarrad Branthwaite has already been rejected, while French pair Anthony Martial and Raphael Varane have left the club after their contracts expired.
But business is far from finished, with another centre-back tipped to arrive, Branthwaite to be further pursued, and a new name odds-on to join the Red Devils’ forward line.
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Matthijs de Ligt
After playing perhaps the best football of his career under Ten Hag at Ajax, De Ligt has fallen out of favour at his current club Bayern Munich and a switch to Old Trafford has been mooted.
A £68million signing from Juventus, De Ligt hasn’t lived up the expectations that surrounded him following Ajax’s run to the Champions League semi-final in 2019.
Scoring in both the quarter-final against eventual club Juventus, and semi-final, where Ajax infamously fell to Tottenham, De Ligt was one of the hottest centre-back prospects on the market.
Failing to settle in Italy meant that the Bayern move could act as a reprieve, but the Dutchman now finds himself behind former Tottenham and England man Eric Dier in the pecking order.
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