How do you get motivated to play football if you’ve won everything there is to win?Toni Kroos is 27 years old, but he has completed the game. Four league titles, three national cups, three Champions Leagues, four Club World Cups and a World Cup mean that the only major trophy that the German hasn’t won is the European Championships, which his national side haven’t won since 1996. But with the pressure off, how do you get motivated?Perhaps, if the Real Madrid midielder’s interests are anything to go by, he should be doing everything he can to rock up in the Premier League this January.We all know about his predilections for the less well-travelled road when it comes to what you’d expect footballers to be interested in: his music taste alone is part eyebrow-raising but fully endearing.

And then there’s the fact that Kroos is all-in on his fandom: every 13th February he wishes Robbie Williams a happy birthday. Just look how joyful and starstruck he looks when meeting the man himself last year – it’s the same look a football-mad kid has when they meet, say, Toni Kroos…

But perhaps the most surprising revelation about the German international repeats itself every once in a while when the darts comes around. Safe to say he’s a fan of that, too. And when Phil ‘The Power’ Taylor took to the oche to face down Rob Cross for one final time before retirement at the final of the PDC Darts World Championship on New Year’s Day, Kroos took to Twitter like every other fan to cheer on another of his unlikely heroes.

With New Year’s Day opening the madness that is the January transfer window, Kroos should think about his future. A move to Manchester City, who may be missing Kevin de Bruyne or David Silva for some time would be an obvious choice. Or Manchester United, who could be doing with another midfield maestro to pull the strings and let Paul Pogba roam freely.

But those options just seem wrong. Just as Real Madrid somehow seems wrong, too. Sure, his personality on the pitch – all silk and class – matches perfectly with the back-to-back European champions. But sometimes a footballer’s personality off the pitch demands a club where he just seems to fit in. And that’s not with one of the superclubs of the latter stages of the Champions League.

That’s surely with a more salt-of-the Earth People’s Club. Surely for the man who’s won everything, a move to one of England’s traditional clubs would suit him down to the ground – Everton and West Ham will be on the lookout for new recruits this January under new management (both solid British managers who’d be up for a round of darts) so why not rock up there? The European footballing sophistiqué for the Brexit generation needs an appropriate home, after all.

Of course, it might be tongue in cheek to suggest that Kroos would leave the Bernabeu to follow what must clearly be his dream of sitting in a dark pub with a pint of bitter in one hand and three darts in the other – maybe with a few quid saved over for a go on the jukebox later – but after winning everything in Spain and Germany, perhaps it will very seriously be time for a new adventure sometime soon.

And England looks like the perfect place.