AFC Ajax academy
Matthijs de Ligt
Defender · 27 yrs
Now at Manchester United F.C.
€57.2mESTwhat he is worth today
No paid transfer on record in the last 36 months. This one is our arithmetic, not a receipt. How we estimate
What the model was shown
- Senior appearances
- 276
- For clubs on this board
- 276
- Last season (2025–26)
- 14 matches · 1 goals+assists
- Season before (2024–25)
- 2 goals+assists
- Career goals
- 25
- Senior caps
- 50
- In the last two years
- 3
- Youth caps
- nothing on file
- Honours won
- 28
- Wikipedia readers / month
- 90k
- Club strength (Elo)
- 1,915
- League strength (Elo)
- 1,827
Long absence: 14 matches in 2025–26, against a usual 42 a season for him. The estimate reads that season as absence, not form, and leans on his previous seasons — in our corpus of real sales, a long absence moved the fee itself very little.
He last changed hands for €45m on 2024-08-13 — too long ago to stand as the value, but it holds the floor under this estimate. Source
42 months at AFC Ajax between his 15th and 21st birthdays — no argument here.
That is 3 seasons of somebody driving him to training in the dark.
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