Real Madrid snapped Toni Kroos up from Bayern Munich in 2014, but he could have completed a transfer to Liverpool or Manchester United six years ago.
Liverpool and Manchester United were ready to sign Toni Kroos from Bayern Munich back in 2014.
Discussing the interest from Anfield, Kroos told The Athletic : “It wasn’t a straight chat-up line but they offered to tell me more about the club and so on.”
Kroos added, laughing: “The funny thing was, Suarez was about to leave to Barcelona anyway.”
On being ghosted by United later that year, the former Red Devils target said: “David Moyes had come to see me and the contract had basically been done.
“But then Moyes was fired and Louis van Gaal came in, which complicated matters.
“Louis wanted time to build his own project. I didn’t hear anything from United for a while and started having doubts.
“Then the World Cup started and Carlo Ancelotti called. And that was it.”