I think this is a condition that is rarely experienced by professional footballers and here Toni Kroos still gives an impressive performance while experiencing this health problem. What is clear is that his retirement this time was not without clear reasons and he would indeed be in a very unhealthy condition if he continued playing. Therefore, he made a difficult decision and chose to hang up his boots sooner at the age of 34 rather than making his situation worse later.
I don’t think this will be the end of Toni Kroos with Real Madrid. I saw in another news but don’t know how legit that Toni Kroos have been convinced by Real Madrid management and have agreed to sign for another one year before he’ll finally hang his boot. Following this, I never knew him to have any health condition prior to now. To have been enduring and playing till now with such health condition, he shouldn’t have considered to renew the contract for another year if at all the news is true. Health is wealth and he shouldn’t gamble with it for any reason.
But I don't know whether Barcelona has enough money to buy new players and sell their players, even though we know they are in a financial crisis, I am not a Barcelona supporter but what I see is that Barcelona should have lots of young players to fill the main squad so they can compete in the season. in the future and Xavi can rotate each of his players so that he can continue to maintain consistency next season, at least winning the Laliga title is already a good achievement, let alone the UCL which is certainly not an easy competition to overcome.
This method of bringing in young players into the team to grow with existing players is a very good idea that many of the big teams like Real Madrid have done and it’s working for them. Barcelona have financial crisis but I still feel there is a way they can still do this and not get entangled in this financial mess. They need long and consistent players to keep the performance consistent which make them a relevancy in the fight for all major trophies they’re fighting for. Excuses will not solve the problem, since they know the solution to all of this, they should look for a way to make it work for them in their favour. All this excuses won’t matter when you continue losing and adding bad records to your achievements so far as a football team.