The first offer was rejected, we’ll see if the second one will be too. The Italian Gazzetta dello Sport writes that Chelsea offered Juventus 80 million euros for Dutchman Matthijs de Ligt. The first one saw a firm ‘NO’ from the Bianconeri, which amounted to 40 million euros plus one of the players, German Timo Werner or American Christian Pulisic.The Dutch national team member has an exit clause of 120 million euros for the early termination of the cooperation, which expires in 2024. A little earlier, Corriere della Sera reported that the Blues’ new offer is 70 million euros, but that the Old Lady is asking for 80 million for the corpulent sweeper who arrived at Turin from Ajax three years ago.Chelsea’s priority at centre-back this summer has become Matthijs de Ligt rather than Jules Kounde according to @FabrizioRomano. De Ligt wants to come to the Premier League and the West London club are currently in negotiations with Juventus. pic.twitter.com/YBFiVbKoBy— Football España (@footballespana_) July 4, 2022 Gazzetta, on the other hand, claims that Juventus wants 90 million euros to set De Ligt ‘free’. The soap opera could soon have an epilogue, and it seems that the player is getting closer to moving to the island. De Ligt announced that he wants to leave Juventus, which was confirmed by the club’s executive director Maurizio Arrivabene.The former Ajax captain arrived in Turin in 2019 for a whopping 85.5 million euros. The staunch stopper did not impress in three years in the black and white jersey. With Juventus, De Ligt won the Scudetto in his first season with the giants in 2019/2020. Besides the domestic league title, he also won the Italian Cup and Super Cup.##NAJAVA_MECA_6488504##The former captain of the Amsterdamers is only 22 years old, and three years ago he exploded in the jersey of Ajax who played in the semi-finals of the Champions League and were unfortunately eliminated by Tottenham and Lucas Moura’s goal in the final minutes of the match in Amsterdam (2-3). He then left the Dutch champions together with Frankie de Jong who went to Barcelona. The midfielder has been a target for Manchester United for months.This summer, Juventus lost veteran Giorgio Chiellini, who joined Los Angeles, and another center defender is close to leaving.
