The defender’s statements lift the veil on the difficulties for the extension: even with the signing, the new lower clause requires the bianconeri to keep the bar high. And in Manchester there is mentor Ten Hag …
Among the roses and flowers of the initial reports on the renewal negotiation and the opposite extreme of a door slammed in the face of Juve, the statements of Matthijs De Ligt paint a wide variety of gray the talks underway to stay in black and white. The high bar set by the Dutchman since his retirement in the national team requires immediate reflections but in any case it sounds like a warning on the answers he expects in a horizon that does not go beyond the next twelve months, a warning on the risk of losing him and on the only way to keep him.