Kroos’ contract expires at the end of the 2014-15 season and he wants a lucrative new deal at the Allianz Arena, bringing him on a par with the club’s big earners such as Franck Ribéry on a reported £170,000.
Bayern’s sporting director, Matthias Sammer, has spoken of the club’s determination that Kroos “will stay beyond the expiry of his current deal”.
Interest from United has inevitably strengthened Kroos’s bargaining position. The 24-year-old is doing little to quell speculation.
“It is no secret that the Premier League is a possibility for me,” Kroos said, ahead of Bayern’s Champions League game with Arsenal on Tuesday night.
“Yes, I have heard about these rumours. A lot has been written about it [in England] and the German media like to take over this story also.
"I am a person where a lot is possible for me. No decision has been made about this yet. No one has come to any agreement about this and that will stay like this until the summer.”
Asked by the former Middlesbrough striker Jan Aage Fjortoft, who now works for Norwegian TV, whether he would “consider a move to a team that’s not in the Champions League” (like United next season), Kroos replied: “I will consider everything – if I should leave.”
The smart euros remain on Kroos staying at the record-breaking German and European champions, particularly after Guardiola outlined to the player how he could develop further at Bayern.
“I said to him you have time to become an even better player,” Guardiola said. “I hope he maintains this level of form – and for the next few seasons at this club.
“Toni is a young player, a great talent. He has time to improve, to gain better his skills. I spoke with him and said you have time to become a better player.
"He was very important in my first year here, in the first part of the season when [Mario] Götze , [Javi] Martínez and Thiago [Alcantara] were injured, so we had few midfielders. Kroos with his huge personality, was very important.”
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