It is being reported that Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho is a huge admirer of Toni Kroos and wants to bring in the German at any cost. The deal looks like a highly unlikely one as Madrid find Kroos indispensable and will not be ready to part with him at any cost.
Real Madrid already has a host of midfield talent in their squad in the form of Marco Asensio, Isco, Luka Modric, Dani Ceballos, Toni Kroos, Casemiro and Mateo Kovacic who can all play through the centre. Asensio and Isco are supposedly the future of the club and Kroos and Casemiro form the crux of the current team and are expected to be the backbone of the midfield for the coming years. With Modric at the dusk of his career and Ceballos unable to settle in, Kroos is set to continue a vital member at the Bernabeu over the years.
It was all the way back in 2007 when a young seventeen-year-old broke into Bayern’s first team and made an immediate impact by setting up two goals for German legend Miroslav Klose. The impressive start to his career as Toni Kroos spiralled up the progress ladder and made most of his limited game time at Bayern Munich.
He was subsequently loaned out to Bayer Leverkusen for eighteen months where he continued to develop and upon returning took on the mantle as the chief midfield creator for Bayern and led the club to great success including Heynckes’ treble-winning team of 2012-13.
Unfortunately, things fell through between the player and the club in the future and Real Madrid swooped in and lured him away to Santiago Bernabeu. He is now into his fourth year at the club and has developed into not only an integral cog in the team but into one of the finest midfielders in the world.
As for United, they already have a world-class midfielder in Paul Pogba who can play the box-to-box role. They also have Nemanja Matic who would be ideal to hold up behind and shield the defence all day long. This would leave Kroos, should he make the move, to take over the role of a playmaker. He can play alongside Pogba and Matic in a three-man midfield thereby allowing the Frenchman to roam around in the final third without having to drop too deep to retrieve the ball. However, given the player’s importance and the team he is playing for, a move looks highly improbable.
