The Manchester United got in touch with Matthijs’s entourage of Light because he is among the options being considered as the new central defender. The journalist Fabrizio reports it Roman from his profile X: the player himself would have then opened up to the idea of a transfer to Old Trafford, despite the prospect of not playing in the Champions League for a season. Bayern, on the other hand, could sell the Dutchman during this summer, given that they do not consider him unsellable.
Only last week, the same player had shown in a press conference from the Dutch training camp a certain intolerance towards the transfer market topic. In fact, when asked yet another question about his future, the former Juventus he had replied angrily: “You don’t understand Dutch, do you?”, albeit with a smile and then “I already said that now is not the time for me to think about the future. Now we play the European Championship, which is very important for me and for the national team. That’s why I can’t say anything about this situation at the moment, but I’m happy with my second season at Bayern. For the moment I’m concentrating on the European Championship and then we’ll see what happens”.
Meanwhile, the centre-back is “enjoying” the European Championship as a reserve for the starting players: coach Koeman has not yet deployed him in the first three matches against Poland, France and Austria, preferring him to play the pairing in his 4-man line. Van Dijk and the Inter fan De Vrij.