Toni Kroos on his 2014 failed negotiations with Bayern

player,

, spoke about what went wrong with his contract negotiations in 2014, which led him to leave

for Spain. The

international said on his

“Einfach mal luppen”

podcast that the reason for the failure of their talks was Bayern’s reluctance to offer a higher wage to the player.

Kroos describing the reaction of

Uli Hoeness

to his demands, said: “Mr. Hoeneß came to me at the time and said that what my advisor was demanding was cheeky. I told him: ‘That may be your opinion. But that’s what we’re demanding, not my advisor. I think he simply wanted to hear whether Toni was demanding it or whether the advisor wanted it.”

Kroos’s agent,

Volker Struth

, clarifying the events of 2014 and his intense phone call with the team’s sporting director, Matthias Sammer, added:

“We have a great relationship with him. But things got very emotional on the phone when we hinted what our intentions were after the World Cup. It was like a head-to-head on the phone.”

“Toni would not have been a top earner at Bayern with our demand and would not have been in the top five. It was a market demand.”

Since leaving the Bundesliga side, Kroos’s market value has witnessed a good addition, but Bayern’s front office failed to predict the rise of his worth after his

World Cup

win.

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