Comunicado oficial: Toni Kroos El Real Madrid C. F. y el FC Bayern de Múnich han llegado a un acuerdo para el traspaso del jugador Toni Kroos, que queda vinculado al club durante las próximas seis temporadas. El jugador será presentado hoy, 17 de julio, a las 17:00 h, en el palco de honor del estadio Santiago Bernabéu, tras someterse al correspondiente reconocimiento médico. Posteriormente, Toni Kroos pisará por primera vez el césped del Santiago Bernabéu con la camiseta del Real Madrid y atenderá a los medios de comunicación en la sala de prensa. OFFICIAL | Real Madrid and FC Bayern have reached an agreement for the transfer of Toni Kroos for the next six seasons. Real Madrid will present Toni Kroos today at 17:00 CET in the Royal Box at the Bernabeu. http://www.realmadrid.com/noticias/2014/07/comunicado-oficial-toni-kroos Real Madrid C. F. @realmadrid · 29m Comunicado oficial: Toni Kroos, nuevo jugador del Real Madrid Real Madrid C.F. @realmadriden · 12m OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: @ToniKroos, new Real Madrid player #WelcomeKroos #halamadrid FC Bayern English @FCBayernEN · 47m DONE DEAL: Toni Kroos will make an immediate switch to Real Madrid after the clubs reached an agreement. Thread title Credit to @ suckafree8990
In Bundesliga 13/14, Toni Kroos was the player with: Most attempted passes (2189) Most completed passes (2011) Best avg. pass accuracy (92%) -pass accuracy with Bayern Munich in all competitions. More than ANY other Bayern player. Toni Kroos' World Cup stats. Minutes: 690 Goals: 2 Assists: 4 Recovered balls: 20 Pass completion rate: 84.8 % Toni Kroos completed more passes than any other player at the 2014 World Cup (522).
added to that: 248 long balls hit the target out of 294 for an accuracy of 84.35% Those passes to Bale and Ronaldo.......
Germans to play/to have played for Real Madrid. Netzer, Paul, Uli, Schuster, Illgner, Metzelder, Özil, Khedira, TONI KROOS (9th Player) 6-year deal. -€30M. -€6M per year. Rummenigge [Bayern]: We thank Toni for his time in Munich. We wish him and his family good luck in Madrid.
Kroos our quarterback, Bale and Ronaldo the wide receivers. (Am I doing this right?) brb cleaning up all this drool everywhere.....
So, German Xavi sort of? I'll be honest, before the WorldCup I didn't think too highly of him. Saw him as a bit of a "safe & nothing special player" .. His last two games in the WC watching him closely seeing how everything Germany did went through him I'm excited & looking forward to seeing what he can do with us alongside Luka. If he's directly replacing DiMaria in the lineup we'll definitely miss Angel's energy & penetration. A more stable consistent midfield might be a better alternative. That trio @Eddie posted looks a lot like what Barca used to roll out & won so much with. Goodluck to him. Let's do this.
Toni Kroos Trophy cabinet 1 World Cup 1 Champions League - 1 Club World Cup 1 UEFA Supercup - 3 Bundesligas 3 German Cups - 2 German Supercups
That would leave us almost as imbalanced as last season. Signing of Kroos changes many things in my opinion.
Kroos--Midfielder --------Modric----- With Kroos we would struggle to play a two-man midfield. We all know Modric and Kroos must start, and that an aggressive/physical/fast teams would destroy a two-man midfield of Kroos and Modric. So that leads me to the conclusion we must play a three-man midfield. Regardless of popular opinion on this forum, Modric can play the holding role, has played it for us in the past and done well at it. Kroos would play the same position he played effectively for Germany recently and we'd need another midfielder (preferably a box-to-box type) to help balance out any lack of speed, physicality, space or movement from our midfield. Last year we had Xabi playing holding, Modric playing Kroos role and Di Maria providing the extra. While very effective because of Di Maria's uncanny ability it was still unbalanced and dangerous. If we weren't at full power we were easy to control and counter.
Modric might be moved deeper. And it might work. He has the intelligence and workrate to make it work. Either way Kroos is a great signing which adds needed depth, and a positive selection headache.