Julian Brandt

Germany also have a new head coach, the former Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp, and he's named his 44-man squad for the next two matches.

They include Ajax's on-loan goalkeeper Marc-André Ter Stegen, but the other two Ajax German veterans they acquired over the summer, Julian Brandt and Thilo Kehrer, will be watching from the stands in what's now their home ground of the Amsterdam Arena.

Branta scored twice in five days as Ajax notched up a pair of 5-1 wins to rise to fourth in the Eredivisie under their Spanish coach, Michel Sanchez.

So the Spanish is just taking over here.

Just really made it easier for Klaassen to pick his spot.

Julian Brandt would make it two-nil just before the break here.

[crowd cheering]

Hmm.

I think-

... from Julian Brandt, Til Kehrer, Donyell Malen, and Kasper Dolberg and Jurriën Baas.

Yes.

Uh, yeah.

I'm glad that Baas, uh, Jurriën Baas scored the goal.

I think, I'm not sure if this is his first goal this season.

Um, yeah, Brandt, of course, um, he's really a key player.

He's a very important player for, uh, Ajax, so a well-deserved win in my opinion, yes.

Yeah.

I mean, we probably should as well mention like the Julian Brandt situation, you know, weren't able to get him, put a lot of effort into that.

And yeah, I don't know.

There was no one else with that profile that we were looking at as far as I'm aware.

Barcelona goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Stegen has moved to Amsterdam on a season-long loan.

Julian Brandt has arrived from Borussia Dortmund as a free agent and defender Thilo Keira is another loanee from Monaco, so Ajax have...

Yeah, so the Germans have been descending on Amsterdam en masse in a scene not seen for over 80 years.

The task of filling Gotze's boots will fall on Ivory Coast striker Sir Simon Adringa, who's arrived on loan again from Sunderland.

But I said, "Oh, you know, if Salah's left," and stuff like that.

And he, and he was like, "Yeah, yeah, let's get it." He was there, and I was like, "Okay, he really wants to talk about Mo Salah." And then he brought up the Julian Brandt thing, and I was like, "Oh, that's why he wants to do it." Like, obviously he's, you know, he, he said, "Oh, everyone says I wanted Julian Brandt," and stuff like that.

But that's nonsense.

I just brought him up in a meeting.

And I'm not saying who's doing it, uh, 'cause I can't prove that, but there seems to be a keenness from certain individuals to take credit for the, the, the Mo Salah signing-

That's crazy

... because it'd worked really well, but also to go, "And fucking Jürgen wanted Julian Brandt," you know.

Yeah.

So I don't think that's there either.

When you look at what Leeds looked at in the summer and one of the lines that will come back we talked about, I think, after the window closes, depending on how it finishes, is Leeds went after Julian Brandt and they missed out on him.

He'd already made his decision prior to Leeds heading off on the US tour.

And at that point, Leeds said they'd moved on to other targets.

Leeds admire this player but haven't yet made a move, are not actively pursuing right now.

We've seen Igor Paixao, Pavel Schulz, Mykhailo Mudryk, Julian Brandt, Alag Begovic, even Eduard Spertsyan earlier in the transfer window, all linked as players who can fulfill that role.

And at the time of recording, none of them have materialized in a Leeds United shirt just yet.

Leeds' speed this summer hasn't really had a negative impact on Daniel Farke's squad.