Matthijs de Ligt’s agent Mino Raiola told journalists on Wednesday that they “wrote so much bullsh*t that not even Walt Disney would be able to come up with,” when he was asked about Barcelona interest in De Ligt.

The Catalans were persistently linked with the teenage throughout much of 2018/19, yet he’s ended up poised to sign for the Serie A champions instead.

Raiola was with his client in Turin during his medicals and was quizzed about the process that got De Ligt to sign.

His reply, which you can watch above, was typically strident: