Hasan Salihamidzic says Bayern Munich are in a ‘good position’ to sign Matthijs de Ligt from Juventus, but admits the Bavarians must ‘have patience.’
De Ligt has agreed personal terms with the Bundesliga giants who saw an opening €60m bid rejected by Juventus earlier this week.
Former Bianconeri winger Salihamidzic met the Old Lady directors on Monday and told reporters, including Football Italia, that he was ‘optimistic’ about a positive end of negotiations with the Old Lady.
The former winger provided more updates in his latest interview with Bild.
“It was important to me to sit down with Maurizio Arrivabene, Federico Cherubini and Pavel Nedved,” he said.
“I was there [at Juventus] as a player for four years and have a good relationship with the club. We’ve spoken twice, now we have to be patient and see what happens.”
De Ligt joined Juventus from Ajax in an €85.5m bid in the summer of 2019. He has a €120m clause included in his contract, which runs out in 2024.
However, Juventus are open to selling their star defender for €90-100m but are ready to keep their star defender if they don’t receive a suitable offer.
“I think we’re in a good position at the moment because we’ve already done a few things,” continued Salihamidzic.
“That makes it easier on the transfer market. We’ll keep our eyes and ears open, see what’s happening on the transfer market and do what’s best for Bayern.”
De Ligt has played 117 games at the Allianz Stadium, scoring eight goals.
even if we sell him for 90meuros – thats only 4.5m euros profit – what was the point buying him ?
@mohamed that’s not how it works son…
@mohammed… three of his five years have ammortized already. So in reality his remaining two years are worth like €40M. So €90M would be like €50M profit.
Mohammed let’s say you bought a car for £1000 and used it for 3 years and then sold it for £1500 is that decent profit?
I hope de Ligt wouldn’t become anoter Ronaldo’s case, when he went to ManU the last day transfer wimdow and Juve couldn’t sign a replacement.
@Kmac. I think it’s 45M € left for amortization. I this is the main reason most play lowball in this situation. Juve is not a club that sells talents once they start bloomimg, so we’ll have to get used to having less profit from big sales. But we can keep our players by offering the brand name “Juve”. This is what worked in case of Chiesa, Locatelli, Vlahovic, di Maria, Pogba and many more. Less than a year from when CR7 left, and we can see that Juve squad is even more competitive than a year ago.
Bayern are very shrewd and it is why they’re the best run club in Europe. By making a smaller team hold out longer, they know they can get the price to be compromised as Juve will be sweating, trying to find a replacement at the last minute. Juve should just convert Cafu Danilo now. After all he is versatile and knows PhD Max’s back, back, down, down chapter and verse.
@Jaber – with your anology – no thats not good profit, as we bought him to make a good amount of profit knowing we will have to sell him in few yrs – just like we did with pogba – hence the release clause
@Mohmmed,
I don’t think Juve’s plan was to sell a young payer they bought for 90mil in a few years nor even Pogba. These clubs have to run a business but part of running a successful sports club is being able to win with a competitive team. Deligt was supposed to be heir to Chiellini. Its not gonna happen but the longer he stays, Juve also recoup the investment, its called amortization. If Bayern don’t want to pay the cash now then get another season out of him and sign him to a new shorter contract with a lower release clause to what teams will pay. The player is not on bad terms with the team and it seems he be open to it with guarantee he goes to Bayern next season. If all parties open to it then solution found. They never would have bought a young player for 90mil hoping to make a profit in a few years. I will admit this is not how a club should be doing business. They should have an excellent scouting system, bring in young players at low fees and then eventually sell them on at higher profits if and when they have to but Juve has not been managed well imo for some time.