Juventus director Maurizio Arrivabene has lashed out at Matthijs de Ligt. The defender was wiped out after statements by agent Mino Raiola about a possible transfer . Paulo Dybala also had to suffer.
“Today players are more loyal to their agents than to the club they play for,” Arrivabene said. De Ligt and Dybala would both like to find the way to the exit in Turin and have apparently been using their agents for that in recent weeks.
Raiola spoke on behalf of De Ligt at Studio Voetbal, among others. There he indicated that it is time to find another club in the summer. Arrivabene thinks it’s his own. “De Ligt is a great defender. But he has to do his job. Then we’ll do ours.’
“It’s very easy to speak as if you really care about the club colors,” Arrivabene continues. He wants the eager players to actually do that. “You have to prove it on the field first. And we want them to do that.’
‘De Ligt’s achievements can be seen by everyone.’ That the international of Orange receives preferential treatment with a transfer request is a utopia. “When the time comes, we’ll talk to him. Just like with other players. We make no exceptions.’
De Ligt is now in his third year at Juventus. In those seasons he played 94 games for the Old Lady . The Italians paid more than 85 million euros to insure the services of the then Ajax player. On Saturday, De Ligt made an impression in a Serie A match that he won when he visited Bologna.
