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Toni Kroos has said he was not tempted to delay his retirement to play with Kylian Mbappé at Real Madrid. However, the 24-year-old admitted it “wasn’t easy” to inform manager Carlo Ancelotti he had decided to leave the LaLiga club. Kroos retired from football this summer, after winning 23 trophies in a decade at Madrid and competing with Germany at Euro 2024. “The decision didn’t depend on if a player was arriving or leaving,” Kroos told Marca when asked if he’d considered staying at Madrid to play with Mbappé, who agreed a five-year contract in June. “It was my decision. I knew Mbappé was com…

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