That Spoofex guy gave another update about De Ligt about an hour ago.
They have no idea where all that noise at the weekend came from. As far as the club is concerned,
we have made an offer to Ajax that was accepted formally. The contract terms have been agreed upon, its now just up to De Ligt to accept and sign. Worth noting; we haven't made any direct contact with Raiola in this, because of his ban (Lawlor and Bout are being very strict about how things are being done due to the amount of teams getting FFP and Transfer Tap-up bans at the moment). We've been dealing with Hulshoff, his registered agent.
If he winds up going to Barcelona (the only other team that are in for him as far as we know) then it simply means he rejected us for them. It could also be very damaging to the Riaola relationship because Bout fecking hates the guy (and shares that internally a lot). If he agrees to it this week then we will apply to Netherlands to release him for a medical, but if they say no we will wait for after the internationals. The internal belief is that he is genuinely looking our way and will join United.