For me, real development starts when you're ready to play with the first team. That said, all young players need consistent playing time to get the most out of their development.
I think the criticism has been a bit overblown, especially with the development and emergence of a host of young talent around him. I think he'll do alright.
It could play out differently. Khedira could get a permanent injury, Jupp plays Kroos all season long in the holding midfield position and he starts for Germany. Goetze is literally a fixture for 2014, and I don't see Podolski's playing good enough, or developing furthermore. Goetze will most likely displace him. That being said, with Muller, Goetze and Oezil in midfield i don't see him playing.
Götze should be a fixture for 2012 at this rate. The most urgent thing for Jogi, besides fixing the godamn defense once and for all, is to ensure that Özil, Götze and Müller get on the same pitch together as often as possible. I'm afraid that makes Kroos a back up to Khedira/Schweinsteiger and that's not necessarily such a bad thing.
FR, if you were a little less bayern centric in Kroos' development , you'd have to say that he's been screwed around with up to now. That talent could have been starting now.
I'm probably the least Bayern centric of any BS Bayern fans. Kroos has had a mix of things to put him where he is now, an unfortunate series of issues with the club, management and its players that is bound to affect any player's form and development, and also the circumstance itself, that being a young player trying to develop but do so at a big club with expectations and pressures. Some overcome it quicker than others, some never do. I still expect Kroos to come good.
I know that, but I would have said it was best for him to avoid Uli and his "10" jersey altogether....anyway, what the fck is your avatar all about??
Well people have to learn to edit Uli and some of his comments out properly or else their heads explode. As for the avatar, it's a personal tribute to some of Eintracht's older teams and players. Been reading up on them and watching a lot of their stuff over the past week. Also looks pretty cool, no?
Yeah it does but it had me confused as heck this morning.... I need to get round to reading that piece. Did G write it? I think I've read it a few years ago....was it the 6 goal show against bayern?
Yea he wrote it, i revised it and put all the graphics in. That's the one. Also added the videos to it.
Wondered what was up. I think the video should be on youtube. I remmeber watching the goal from the corner.
I think it's going to be Podolski, Oezil and Muller again. Jogi seems very reluctant to change, just my thoughts. He is 4 goals short of Podolskis 12 goal haul this season and has many more assists but it is really down to next season. If he can bag in many goals and assists, he could come good. It isn't a bad thing for many players, but Kroos was meant to be playing were Oezil is now. Obviously, Oezil has been starting in games a long time ago and had adequate time to develop, and he done so finely. The case is not so with Kroos thus far and next season will be career defining I am sure. Would be interesting to see Goetze, Oezil and Kroos in midfield with Muller and Gomez up front.
I don't expect him to change, I know how conservative he can be in that regard. It's just that those three are really the future of this side and the quicker you can get your most intelligent players on the pitch the better. They're obviously in a different category than any other German players and to think of what they can do on the field together is mouthwatering. Would love to see those three play behind Schürrle.
Schurrle is terrific, I really like the guy he has a hard work ethic, good scoring instincts and that innate talent which is needed. He seems like a natural successor to Klose for me, well rounded too. --------------Neuer lahm------Merte------Hummels----Schmelzer/Aogo ------------------Schweinsteiger ------Goetze------------Oezil-------------Kroos ---------------Mulller-----------Schurrle/Gomez Too radical a change, but I would love to see this formation. It's also inflexible, so I'm probably not seeing it
That midfield would be overrun with ease. Schweini does not have the defensive skill-set to play as the lone destroyer. Khedira's defensive abilities have improved dramatically at Real and it will take a serious long term injury to displace him from the starting line-up. He is already twice the player we saw at WC2010.
I'm massively disappointed with Kroos' development. He hasn't really been given the opportunity to consistently play, and at his age, and with the potential he has exhibited in the past, he should be playing more often. I don't really know who to blame for it as Bayern has had so much trouble this last year. Next year will reveal more, but I really don't think signing that extension is in his best interest. He needed to give himself the flexibility to shop around should a Bayern under JH not work out in his favor.