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Hoeness Tells Kroos To Step Up His Game

Bayern Munich general manager Uli Hoeness has challenged Toni Kroos to make it impossible for Juergen Klinsmann to leave him out of the starting lineup.

Nov 12, 2008 9:33:01 PM

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Having managed just two starts this season, the promising youngster is reportedly growing increasingly dissatisfied with his role at the club and could very well be contemplating a departure.

Bayern are showing understanding but the prospects for the talented midfielder don’t look all that rosy this season with a number of proven internationals ahead of him in the Bayern pecking order.

"He has got to improve," was Hoeness' assessment in Munich daily Tz."When I was 18 and came to Bayern, I had to compete with national team players. I knocked them to the side one by one and when I was 20, I was in the national team myself.

"Every training game with Bayern gives him more than a league game with an average team, where he may end up losing every week."

Kroos, 18, has a contract with Bayern until 2012 and it is unlikely that Bayern would be willing to sell him. A loan move, however, could be on the cards with a whole host of Bundesliga clubs already being linked with his name.

Derek Wanner, Goal.com