mo4ch:> 'There's Buffon, there's Ronaldo!' – De Ligt says he's like 'a child in a candy shop' with Juventus | Mo4ch News

The defender discussed what it was like when he first arrived at the Serie A club and got to play alongside some of his childhood heroesMatthijs de Ligt said he felt "like a child in a candy shop" when he first entered the Juventus dressing room after signing for the club last summer.The Netherlands international joined Juve from Ajax for a reported €75 million in July last year after starring with the Eredivisie giants.De Ligt, 20, said he was somewhat starstruck when he first arrived at the Serie A side as he looked around and could call Cristiano Ronaldo and Gianluigi Buffon team-mates.Editors' Picks"Juventus told me also like, 'All right, you're young, but also the reason we want to buy you is because you are already really mature, you know how to handle pressure' and stuff like that," the defender told Foot Truck in an interview alongside another team-mate, Wojciech Szczesny."They also said to me it's difficult for a 19-year-old to go …