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Matthijs de Ligt, the 19-year-old Ajax captain who led the Dutch side to the Champions League semifinals, is undergoing a medical ahead of his transfer to Juventus for a reported fee of $83.7 million. Juve released a series of pictures and videos on its official Twitter account showing De Ligt …

Dutch press exalted the long-awaited return of Ajax to the Champions League semi-finals but in Italy Juve were savaged. Ajax’s 2-1 second-leg Champions League quarter-final win at Juventus generated an understandably rapturous reaction back home in the Netherlands. “Incredible, incredible,” said De Telegraaf. “The achievement did not come easily but …