Former Actual Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos is all the time good for a straight opinion on issues within the footballing world, and the retired World Cup-winner has as soon as once more made headlines for his contributions to the podcast ‘Einfach mal Luppen’, which he hosts together with his brother, Felix Kroos. This time the 2 have been debating the distinction between Barcelona supervisor Hansi Flick and the strategies employed by Carlo Ancelotti at Actual Madrid.
Whereas Flick made an impression at Barcelona for his personable method, there was little question that one of many issues he delivered to the desk was self-discipline. Specifically, when it got here to punctuality. On three separate events, Jules Kounde was dropped for arriving late to crew conferences, whereas Inaki Pena was additionally benched for a similar motive.
Kroos believes Actual Madrid gamers ‘would have laughed’
Kroos and Flick labored collectively through the latter’s time as assistant supervisor on the German nationwide crew, and once more when he took the senior job. He was accustomed to
“With Hansi, some gamers have been neglected of the crew for being late to a gathering. This has occurred a number of occasions at Barca,” Sport quoted.
“They’re totally different philosophies. At Actual Madrid, they’d have laughed. Typically, you didn’t know who was going to be later, the participant or the coach. It’s a unique mentality, not letting somebody play as a result of they’re 5 minutes late to a gathering.”
Nonetheless Kroos didn’t declare which he felt was higher in his eyes.
“They’re simply totally different. They’re each good. You would say Flick’s is typical of Germany.”
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Xabi Alonso’s method at Actual Madrid
It’s a topic that may very well be of curiosity at Valdebebas this season although. Xabi Alonso has arrived at Actual Madrid, and was a part of the costliest dressing room in historical past whereas there. But the Basque supervisor has spent vital time in Germany each as a supervisor and a participant – one in every of Alonso’s first messages to the squad was that he needed 200% from his gamers.