MU Forces Bayern Munich To Sell Matthijs De Ligt At Low Prices

Bayern Munich defender Matthijs de Ligt while returning to training for the 2024/2025 season. (X/@FCBayernEN)

JAKARTA - Manchester United still hopes to recruit Bayern Munich defender Matthijs de Ligt. However, MU chose to wait until he could finally buy De Ligt at a low price.

MU does need a center-back. Especially after the new defender Leny Yoro suffered an injury that made him rest for three months.

However, MU has been targeting De Ligt for a long time. Despite Yoro's injury, MU is still trying to bring in the defender of the Dutch national team.

MU actually made an offer that benefited Bayern. The reason is, the English Premier League club is ready to buy two defenders Bayern, De Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui. However, the offer to buy one package was rejected by Bayern.

This German Bundesliga club prefers to sell its players separately. Bayern has set a price of 43 million for De Ligt. It's just that, MU doesn't want to buy at that high price.

According to 90Min, MU is optimistic that he can attract De Ligt at a lower price. The reason is that De Ligt has expressed interest in joining MU. In the past, when he was still in Ajax Amsterdam, he indeed rejected MU's offer and chose to move to Juventus.

But now the situation is different. At MU, De Ligt will have a reunion with manager Erik ten Hag who raised him in Ajax. Ten Hag also trusted the captain's armband even though he was still young in Ajax.

Not only that, De Ligt had the same fate as Juve when he moved to the German club. Buy at a high price, 67 million euros, he is still not in maximum Bayern uniform.

New FC Hollywood coach Vincent Kompany did not include De Ligt in the team design. Kompany has no objection if the 24-year-old player is released to MU.

On the other hand, Bayern has already targeted Bayer Leverkusen defender Jonathan Tah to replace De Ligt. It's just that the purchase of Tah can only be made after Bayern sells De Ligt.

MU's position is a little over the wind. The reason is that De Ligt must immediately release his players if he wants Tah. This can force Bayern to lower De Ligt prices so that they can be sold. Moreover, only MU has so far intended to buy De Ligt.

Unlike 2019 when De Ligt was contested by MU and Barcelona. But neither of them even got De Ligt because the player joined Juve.