TO Toni Kroos you have to see it much longer with the Real Madrid shirt. Just a year ago and after a personal and collective season to forget, the German appeared in the Press Room of the Bernabéu to announce that he was renewing until 2023 with Madrid. “If with 29 years I renew so long the idea is that it is practically the last”, advanced the 8 madridista. A plan that hasn’t changed twelve months later Despite the fact that this year there has been some situation of apparent disagreement with Zidane, that the fans seem somewhat disenchanted and the competition grows (Valverde), in addition to the appearance of new midfielders on the horizon (Camavinga). Kroos does not move. Madrid tied him with that new contract last year and Kroos has also tied Madrid. The commitment is mutual.
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“Toni is comfortable in Madrid”, explain those close to AS. “He will continue there, going to China or the United States is not his thing”. An idea that has also been shared publicly by the brother of the Madrid midfielder, Felix Kroos, player of the Unión Berlín. It may be that his future may go beyond 2023 if he does not extend his stay in the capital of Spain. Germany, the return home. Or leave it. What Toni is not seeing is extending his career in an exotic but ostentatious League. His current concern is to maintain a physique until he is 33 years old according to the requirement of Real Madrid. (about fifty annual matches). Modric leads the way and the white club sees it possible to replicate the model with Kroos.
–Florentino Pérez greets Kroos during the last preseason in Montreal.
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Filing rough edges
The present is that Kroos has eleven games more the return in the Etihad and what could come later to get closer to the white fans who came to look with some suspicion at the elegant Teutonic midfielder, perhaps in part, for his closeness with Guardiola in the first leg of the last 16 of the Champions League against City. Kroos stayed on the bench because of Zidane’s decision (he didn’t even heat up) and the Catalan coach involved him in something that seemed almost like a performance. After the match, the midfielder met Pep and was the coach citizen the one who took the German out of the intimacy of the conversation started after an advertising screen and moved him to the front, to a mixed area full of journalists and cameras.
It was an anecdote, but Kroos has lived several seasons in one. It started, rare for him, as a scoring tornado, and as part of the sacrosanct midfield trio for Zidane, alongside Casemiro and Valverde. But the substitution at the derby break against Atlético, City and the substitution in the last pre-David-19 game, that of Betis, left a strange situation. “It seems that something is happening there,” Álvaro Benito warned in Carousel.
When planning a Madrid without wrinkles, increasingly younger, that of Greifswald contributes the residue that Ramos, Marcelo, Modric and Benzema also add.
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This very summer Kroos was involved in a controversy over the cut in wages due to the coronavirus after a statement from him on a podcast. He was upset, he thought that the media and part of the fans had not understood what he meant. The club and the German clarified terms and Kroos continues to be a fundamental part of the entity’s medium-term future. “It is essential”, Zizou assured despite what happened on City day. When planning a Madrid without wrinkles, increasingly younger, the Greifswald midfielder contributes the legacy that also Ramos, Marcelo, Modric and Benzema add. He’s in the golden age for a midfield metronome, 30, and he does it at the highest level and always being in the top-8 of players with more minutes. Without playing tricks, or doing the trile. “Do not expect to see me playing until I am 38 years old,” he said recently in his country. Kroos is focused on the now and on what comes a little later, in serving Madrid (at least) until 2023.
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