Toni Kroos left Guardiola’s Bayern free to come to Madrid. One of the most profitable hits of recent times. The German has been a consistent performer over the years and there was no transfer fee to pay. Bayern escaped, as Alaba did, in one of his classic pulses with footballers where they do not read the order of priorities well, according to the results. It turns out that Volker Struth, considered the most powerful agent in German football, releases his biography next Thursday and has appeared in image to give a preview of it. In it he recounts how Kross’s departure from Bayern was created in 2014 and some at Bayern are not well off.
“Since September 2013, Bayern wanted to extend the contract, but Kroos did not want to. They even offered him six million per season. But is it that they were forgetting that I knew they were already paying Götze 10 million? So we ask for the same, 10 million. Guardiola wanted to retain him. ‘I need you here,’ he told Toni. And I think that said the same thing to Rummenigge, “says Struth. But things got worse with the appearance of Uli Hoeness. “I met with Bayern in Munich and Rummenigge told me: ‘Because of the appreciation we have for Toni, we will reach 6.5 million.’ I replied: ‘We don’t accept less than 10.’ And the conversation ended. relates the agent.
“Then Uli Hoeness came on the scene. On February 2, 2014, after winning 5-0 at Eintracht, Hoeness walked into the locker room and yelled at Toni: ‘Call your agent! You’ll never make 10 million here! ‘ Toni replied: ‘I don’t need to call him, we have the same opinion.’ It was already clear that Toni would not play for Bayern next season. We informed the best clubs in Europe that Kroos was on the market and they didn’t believe us at first. How could Bayern let him go? The perfect man for Guardiola’s football … “, says his agent.
United had it done, but they fired Moyes and broke.
Madrid was not the only one to go after him. The competition was Manchester United, but the whites won. “In April 2014, United sent a copy of a contract to Kroos and David Moyes visited him in person. United’s arguments and the contract were good signs. Kroos agreed to sign for United. I still have the copy, in the absence of only Toni signature. On April 22, United fired Moyes and we had to start looking for another club again. In the end, Kroos joined Real Madrid in the summer of 2014, “says Volker Struth.