As compliments go, being likened to Toni Kroos as a central midfielder must feel like the footballing equivalent of an up-and-coming actor being labelled a ‘young Robert de Niro’. Bowing out of club football in the most fitting way imaginable – the veteran playmaker won a sixth Champions League of his remarkable career as Real Madrid defeated Borussia Dortmund at Wembley – finding a readymade replacement for Kroos would maybe make finalising that long-awaited deal for Kylian Mbappe look like child’s play by comparison. Players like this only come around once in a generation or so, after all. B…