De Ligt's agent Raiola plays a very important role in the Ajax captain's transfer.
Ajax captain De Ligt is represented by the voluble agent Mino Raiola, whose clients Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Paul Pogba joined United ahead of their last Europa League campaign in 2016. Raiola also convinced Romelu Lukaku to move to United in 2017 but Lukaku switched agents last year.
United have cooled their relationship with Raiola, who offered Pogba to City last year and has made efforts to engineer a move to Spain for the Frenchman. Mkhitaryan lasted 18 months at United and Ibrahimovic's second season amounted to two starts and five substitute appearances before he joined the LA Galaxy in March of last year.