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Frenkie de Jong will earn €16 million a year at Barcelona, Matthijs de Ligt will earn €14 million a year at Juventus, yet apparently De Ligt chose money, while Frenkie chose to “fulfill his dreams.”
Reminder: Frenkie de Jong only rejected PSG for Barcelona when Nike agreed to pay a significant portion of his wages. But sure, De Ligt is the money-hungry mercenary.
It had nothing to do with the fact that De Ligt’s chances of starting at Juventus were better than at Barça.
It had nothing to do with the fact that Barça abandoned their pursuit of De Ligt to chase an injury-prone diva who betrayed them two years ago for more money.
It had nothing to do with the fact that Barça abandoned their pursuit of De Ligt to chase an injury-prone diva who betrayed them two years ago for more money.
It had nothing to do with the fact that Juventus are a historic club who have been to more Champions League Finals in the past three years than Barcelona, whose top-earning player asked De Ligt to join during an international final.
No, De Ligt only cares about chasing the bag.
No, De Ligt only cares about chasing the bag.
You can try to defile De Ligt’s character by equating a picture where he isn’t smiling to him somehow chasing money over dreams, but the fact is, Juve are a historic club, and over the past 5 years, they’ve been a much better-run club than Barcelona.
I’ll close this by saying: Barcelona only stopped chasing De Ligt after Neymar started crying that he was unsettled in Paris. They abandoned the best CB of his age class to pursue a polemical, injury-prone drama queen who deserted them for more money just two years earlier.
