Toni Kroos Breaks Down Failed Transfer To Manchester United, It Was So Close To Happening

He signed a six-year deal with the Spanish giants and has since gone on to make over 350 appearances for the club.

Well, then-United manager David Moyes and his partner Pamela made a personal trip to Munich to visit Kroos' family.

In the interview, Kroos then admitted that a move was verbally agreed upon between both parties.

"We also got to know each other as people," he added. "We knew quite a bit about the Moyes family afterwards. We talked about how we lived and how we all imagined life as a family.

"In the end, we broke up to do it. So we agreed verbally. The next step should be to look at everything on the spot in Manchester. The move would not have been that complicated - after all, we only had one child at the time, seven months old. It would all have worked."

Despite talks taking place in Munich ahead of the 2013/14 campaign, a move fell through when Moyes was sacked by Manchester United.

"I'm not someone who thinks about hypotheticals," Kroos says. "Yes, it was close. I almost went to Manchester United. But that's not how things turned out.

"I don't have these 'what if' thoughts. Because there are no real answers to them. The only thing I can say with certainty is that I probably wouldn't have won the Champions League three times with Manchester United."

"United is too big a club to be there for a year or two," he added. "This is not a club where you go to finish your career.

"You have to be there for three or four years and both the player and club must have a clear idea."

Back in 2020, Kroos once again spoke about how close he came to joining the Premier League club.

"Manchester had a lot of interest in me before the World Cup and a deal was close," the Real Madrid midfielder told the Lauschangriff Podcast.

"Then my agent called me and told me about Real Madrid, and when Real Madrid appear you put Manchester behind them in the line.

"At the World Cup Joachim Low asked me if I was leaving for Madrid, so I told him about it and he was happy for me to negotiate things during the tournament."