Juventus Turin wants to prolong the contract with Matthijs de Leig prematurely. This reports the Italian sports direction tuttoSport.

Thus, the strong achievements of the 22-year-old in the current season are decisive for the desire of the association to continue with him. De Ligt is bound to the old lady until 2024 anyway, the new contract would then apply until 2025 and be connected to a salary increase for the defender.

The central defender was already in the summer of 2019, when he decided to change from Ajax to Juve, in numerous European top clubs. The interest has not been flooded since then, lately reassigned associations were associated with de Leig.

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Thus, in addition to the FC Barcelona and the FC Chelsea **, FC Bayern München should be strongly interested in DE. The German record champion loses a center-back in summer with Niklas Süle (free transfer to Dortmund) and is looking for a replacement.