Lars Capiau 10 de mai. de 2026 13:21+03:00 Traduzido por **Hans Kraay Jr.: “I spoke with Jordi Cruijff. He said: ‘I promised my father one thing, and that thing is…'”**
Hans Kraay Jr. knows why Dick Schreuder, at the very least, won’t be Ajax’s coach. The NEC coach hasn’t been an option for some time, and the long-haired analyst — after a conversation with Jordi Cruijff — has an idea why.
“Jordi Cruijff said: we are not going to have a transition year. We have to be champions next year and we will have to return to playing Ajax’s style of football as quickly as possible,” Kraay Jr. recalled on the program Goedemorgen Eredivisie, citing previous statements from the Amsterdam club’s technical director.
“If you see that Dick Schreuder can instill all this attacking football in six weeks at NEC, then the coach Cruijff is going to hire — and it will probably be Míchel from Girona — will also have to do something similar,” Kraay Jr. stated. Here’s a summary of the provided text in English:
Analyst Kraay Júnior stated that Dick Schreuder is not a candidate for the Ajax coaching position. He recounted a conversation with Jordi Cruijff, who emphasized the need to follow his father’s (Johan Cruijff’s) philosophy, specifically playing a 4-3-3 formation, a promise Jordi made to his father.
However, Kraay Júnior noted that Schreuder, who coaches NEC, invariably employs a 3-4-2-1 system, not the 4-3-3. Fellow analyst Bram van Polen expressed regret that Ajax did not reach an agreement with Schreuder. Van Polen wished to see Schreuder’s “super offensive football” at the Johan Cruijff ArenA, acknowledging Cruijff’s reasoning but still feeling it was a missed opportunity.
