Kroos believes Real Madrid players \u2018would have laughed\u2019<\/h2>\n
Kroos and Flick worked together during the latter\u2019s time as assistant manager at the German national team, and again when he took the senior job. He was familiar with<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Hansi, some players have been left out of the team for being late to a meeting. This has happened several times at Barca,\u201d Sport<\/a> quoted.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re different philosophies. At Real Madrid, they would have laughed. Often, you didn\u2019t know who was going to be later, the player or the coach. It\u2019s a different mentality, not letting someone play because they\u2019re five minutes late to a meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n However Kroos did not declare which he felt was better in his eyes.<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re just different. They\u2019re both good. You could say Flick\u2019s is typical of Germany.\u201d<\/p>\n Hansi Flick will call up Ibrahim Diarra for pre-season. The coach wants to see the 18-year-old Malian striker from up close. @tomasandreu68<\/a>, @monfortcarlos<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/PLdm62uGbQ<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 barcacentre (@barcacentre) June 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n It is a subject that could be of interest at Valdebebas this season though. Xabi Alonso has arrived at Real Madrid, and was part of the most expensive dressing room in history while there. Yet the Basque manager has spent significant time in Germany both as a manager and a player \u2013 one of Alonso\u2019s first messages to the squad was that he wanted 200% from his players<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The post Toni Kroos claims Hansi Flick would have been laughed at for policy at Real Madrid<\/a> appeared first on Football Espa\u00f1a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos is always good for a straight opinion on matters in the footballing world, and the retired World…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":814,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":816,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions\/816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.piquant-burotic.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
Xabi Alonso\u2019s approach at Real Madrid<\/h2>\n