Tony Kroos has improved his level and it seems that Madrid had a good choice.
The first decision that Real Madrid made a day after closing the frustrating last season was to announce the extension of Kroos contract - it ended in 2022 and renewed one more year, until 2023-. With the drums of a revolution in the roster playing from many months ago to solve the sports crisis, the club shielded one of the players most marked by the bad campaign. He renewed one of the symbols of the old guard in a risky decision to collide with the idea of change that flew over the Bernabéu.
Six months later, Madrid has won its bet on Kroos. The German has resurfaced strongly and has become one of the most fit players in Madrid, leading the list of candidates to leave at the end of last season who are recovering their best level and have not lost their place in Eleven with Zidane. Kroos was very titular and continues to be on his own merits. The German already gave a hint of his intentions in the press conference of his renovation: "I have played four years at a very top level and this season a little less, not as bad as you want to see, but worse than previous years. happy in Madrid .
And it hasn't taken Kroos to return to his best level. With Germany he won the Eurocup ticket last Saturday, the only title he lacks. Together with Neuer he is the only survivor of the old guard and that is that with Löw, no one has played more games (95) and has scored more goals (17) than the Real Madrid player with the double he signed against Belarus. His last double had served to seal one of the biggest nights in the history of the German team, when they appealed to Brazil from their World Cup with that humiliating 1-7 in Belo Horizonte. This season, ignoring Benzema, Pichichi de LaLiga, nobody He started better than Kroos at Real Madrid. For the German, his six goals - three with the national team - represent his best start in figures since he plays white. And at this rate, he is on his way to overcome his best scoring season when he scored 11 goals in the year of the triplet for Bayern, the last of Heynckes with the Bavarians.