MADRID, 1 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The German midfielder of Real Madrid, Toni Kroos, assured this Tuesday that he does not even know what “is going to happen” with his future and that his wish is to postpone until 2023 any decision on whether he will continue in the Madrid team, although he is clear that he will The only thing that “has not changed” is that it will be in the 14-time European champion that he will “retire”.
“I’m very good and I feel very good, also physically. Things are going well for me and I’m super happy, I’m very calm, it’s funny to read things about something that I don’t even know what’s going to happen. I’ve said that next year or now in the break I’m going to think about what could happen and then little by little I’ll try to decide what I want to do. What I’ve always said and it hasn’t changed is that I’m not going to change clubs, I’m going to retire here, no I know when,” Kroos stressed at a press conference.
The German reiterated that both he and the club are “very calm” and that “there is nothing new.” “We have agreed that we will speak next year, that is very clear. We have a very special relationship in these almost eight and a half years, and we will speak calmly in January, February and March, do not make (journalists) nervous, I’m sure it will work out,” he said with a smile.
The medium does not know if it is currently at its “maximum level”. “In the last eight years I don’t know what my ‘peak’ is because I’ve had really good moments. I feel good, I try to adapt to what is necessary for the team and when a player like Casemiro leaves and new players arrive who play a little differently , Luka (Modric) or I have to adapt a bit to see what helps the team the most. With the ball I think there hasn’t been a big change and it could be that in the defensive aspect it has been better, let’s see how long it lasts” , he opined.
Kroos will complete 382 games as a madridista against Celtic, although he made it clear that he “never” thinks about these figures. “When I came I wanted to be successful and it’s not easy if you’re young. I was 24 years old and I left my country where I was very comfortable at a club like Real Madrid where you just want to succeed, and here you only do it if you play well and win titles The number of games played doesn’t interest me, I’m more interested in quality,” he warned.
The German, who also separated his possible decision from the one Luka Modric could make, whose contract ends in 2023, because “each one gives importance to different things”, confessed that “it would not be bad” to win a sixth Champions League.
“Every competition we play we want to win knowing that it is impossible. We have a very good team, we have started well and in the Champions League you have to be there when the matches start. It is possible to win it again, but at the same time you can be out quickly. We have a team to compete in it and, without a doubt, our goal is to win it because we are Real Madrid”, he added.
On the other hand, the midfielder acknowledged that they did not play their “best game” against Girona, but that “if you can’t win, at least you didn’t lose”, and referred to his expulsion, the first in his career. “Many games have passed. I had the feeling that in the second yellow card I had to make a ‘mini fault’ so that there would be no counterattack and I wanted to touch him as little as possible so that they would not send me off, but it was not possible,” he said.
Regarding Marco Asensio’s penalty, he admitted that he does not pay much attention to the referees’ “talks” each season because “it will always happen every year.” “The referees whistle what they think or see at the moment and it rarely changes, they always decide in the situation. I am clear that it wasn’t, but I don’t like to talk about the referees because sometimes they whistle for you and others against” , declared,
“The only thing that has surprised me is that during the game he decided well and then VAR starts talking to him and for me it is not an action for that. It was clear to me that when he came out he whistled because that is what normally happens, but I like to say that that’s why we tied because we didn’t play the first 60 minutes like the last 30”, settled the German.
In addition, he doesn’t think that the team could be in bad shape physically after these last games without winning because “the rival also makes it difficult for you when you’re well”. “I’m fine and for me a break is coming that may help me not to think about getting tired or if something happens because of the World Cup. Now there is talk of tiredness, but eight or nine days ago we beat Sevilla and we had played against Elche and the Clásico and nobody had talked about fatigue”, he warned.
Still, he knows they need “a win” against Celtic on Wednesday. “We are motivated to win and finish first, that is always our goal and we have a team to do it. We need a good game, as always, to win in the Champions League,” said Kroos.
