Ajax caught plenty off guard when they signed Julian Brandt last summer. Technical director Jordi Cruyff is proud that virtually nobody saw the transfer coming.<\/p>\n
After years at Borussia Dortmund, the 30-year-old Brandt was without a club last summer. Ajax snapped him up on a free transfer.<\/p>\n
Cruyff was asked on Monday on Rondo on Ziggo Sport which transfer from this summer made him proudest. “If I talk about one, I’m not talking about the others. I don’t think that’s appropriate,” he begins.<\/p>\n
“But one I was very happy with was Brandt. The way it happened. Nobody knew anything. Absolutely nobody. I drove to Germany to have a personal conversation with him.”<\/p>\n
“And that happened to be on a Friday. That’s a bit of the week’s happy day. People go out for dinner, and then they suddenly get the news that Brandt is coming to Ajax. And they think: hey, we hadn’t heard anything about that. How is that possible?”<\/p>\n
“I also think it’s important for Ajax that we announce something ourselves for once. And that we decide when and how. I just thought that was important,” Cruyff concludes.<\/p>\n
The German has largely lived up to expectations in Amsterdam, scoring eight goals and providing two assists in 17 competitive appearances for Ajax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajax caught plenty off guard when they signed Julian Brandt last summer. Technical director Jordi Cruyff is proud…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59439,85,46,299405,299404,105],"class_list":["post-665083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ajax","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-j-brandt","tag-j-cruyff","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}