{"id":486294,"date":"2024-08-13T17:40:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486294"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:43:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:43:27","slug":"de-ligt-and-mazraoui-officially-join-man-united-from-bayern","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/de-ligt-and-mazraoui-officially-join-man-united-from-bayern\/","title":{"rendered":"De Ligt and Mazraoui officially join Man United from Bayern"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Devils have inked Bayern Munich pair Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui in a transfer that could cost nearly 60 million pounds.<\/p>\n<p>The Dutch has inked a 5-year deal, and the Morocco international a 4-year contract, both with the option of an additional year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ajax after Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui signed for Manchester United \ud83e\udd1d<\/p>\n<p>Ten Hag is now reunited with five of his former Ajax players \u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZtfwGa3Wp9\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/ZtfwGa3Wp9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ESPNFC\/status\/1823458262739567072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mazraoui could be right away called by the team from Old Trafford to be in the starting 11 at left-back for the injured Luke Shaw &#8211; who is expected to be out until the 1<sup>st<\/sup> international break &#8211; when they welcome Fulham in the EPL at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>Man United will pay 38.5 million pounds + 4.3 million pounds in add-ons for Matthijs, who was captain of Erik ten Hag&#8217;s Ajax team that played in the 2019 UCL \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>Mazraoui also worked with the Red Devils head coach at the Dutch team, and both footballers shared about Ten Hag&#8217;s role in their development.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd34\ud83e\udd1d\ud83c\udffb Matthijs de Ligt: \u201cAs soon as I heard that Man United wanted me, I felt an excitement about the opportunity for a new challenge at such a historic club\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q95lvlqRTb\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/q95lvlqRTb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1823438764657500402?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Red Devils have inked Bayern Munich pair Matthijs de Ligt and Noussair Mazraoui in a transfer that could cost nearly 60 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":486307,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16789,21378,23287,17317],"news_category":[136,14235,16715],"gn_keywords":[17559,21379,23288,17886],"acf":{"announce":"The defenders signed with the Red Devils.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486296,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/486294\/revisions\/486296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486294"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=486294"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=486294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}