Because many (German?) players wouldn't sacrifice the chances of winning silverware for better salaries. It's not that Kroos couldn't afford a nice living at Bayern right now.
Possibly but as I recall it, Ballack wanted a move while his contract was still running but Bayern refused to sell him. The same could be applicable to Kroos.
Oh my, if we get Kroos, then this horrible wait for a midfielder will be worth it.
For those of you who are still not convinced. Just check his performance against Arsenal again. He's all that we need.
Pretty sure Kroos' sign-on bonus, if he joins United on a free next season, would easily make up for one more year with lower wages in a team fighting for the CL title. Usually both the player and the new club benefit financially from a free transfer, after all the available money has to go somewhere and the former club gets feck all then
. The question is can United afford to wait? How important is Kroos or are there different players worth buying this season and Kroos could be the icing on the cake next season? Bayern doesn't need the money and are happy to keep Kroos one more year, especially now that Thiago is injured again and might miss the pre-season.The club denied that. I don't think Taylor is as clued up about United as he once was.
The funny thing is that if we'd kept Moyes till the end of the season, Shaw and Kroos/Carvalho could well have been already signed!
Have we really? We've lost out on a couple of big names because other clubs could pay more money.
Pretty sure Kroos' sign-on bonus, if he joins United on a free next season, would easily make up for one more year with lower wages in a team fighting for the CL title. Usually both the player and the new club benefit financially from a free transfer, after all the available money has to go somewhere and the former club gets feck all then
For example:
Bayern were in desperate need of a new goalkeeper, Neuer was available and it wasn't clear that he definitely would wait one more year for the big move (even though he stated later that he only wanted to join Bayern). So we were forced to pay 25m for a goalkeeper with only one year left on his contract.
With Lewandowski, we weren't desperate. So Dortmund couldn't push the price too high and we were comfortable waiting another year. Lewandowski got a small raise to perform well for Dortmund, probably gets a big sign-on bonus from us now and probably made overall more money by staying one more year in Dortmund than by being sold last season.
This doesn't work like that. Just because you've won a prize doesn't mean you can just throw an equivalent of it in another matter to a bin.
We missed out on loads of players in the past for various reasons, Fergie addresses this quite honestly in his autobiography. It's just the way business is done.
Oh we want Kroos. We offered him a new contract after all. If he wants as much money as United are offering, we simply can't match it and he has to leave. If he wants to be level with the highest paid players in the team, he has to leave, because he's not that important. We have a wage structure and it's important to keep it. We might make necessary exceptions sometimes, but not regularly, not for everyone. If we have a replacement for him lined-up, then I would be surprised if we forced him to say. If we don't find a replacement this summer or have more injured key midfielders after the worldcup, we probably prefer to keep him instead of selling him. In the end, we actually are a football club and want to have the best possible team for next season, not be proud of making the most profitable decisions in the summer.
Brilliant, thanks.
