Rules us out. We're the worst place he could possibly come to if developing himself is his primary aim. Sad but true.
I disagree.
Ole & Ed are clearly targeting you g players as possible. Whilst all the fans want meunier and what not - the players we seem to go after is AWB, Longstaff, James etc & maybe we could add De ligt on to that list alongside the other young players like Sancho or felix.
If De ligt knows this - then that may do him some good because the guy is still young. He has Alot of centre defensive competition at Barcelona with players they have bought quite recently as well, whilst also being around players like Messi & Suarez who will be expected to deliver performances 10/10 most of the time and de ligt would fall for that too.
On the other side - De ligt's first season at a new club like United's finds him in an europa league competition where he can take his time and effort to blend on to the team and possibly lead the team towards the next steps - getting united big again step by step from qualifying to CL football to one say competing & possibly winning the league.
That's what I think anyway. However I also think this Dutch freedom to Barcelona is overrated - sure the best player or two may go there - but having de ligt just follow de Jong to Barcelona just feels like a very babyish thing to do. He is better than that just to follow his partner to a club & from what alot of the ajax fans to say is that de ligt wants to test himself. I don't think holding de jongs hands to go to Barcelona is doing that. Obviously that is just my opinion.