According to scandal video
Toni Kroos defends Neuhaus: “Didn’t think it was bad”
Updated on July 6th, 2025 – 1:20 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
A video in which Gladbach professional Florian Neuhaus talked derogatory about manager Roland Virkus attracted attention. Toni Kroos cannot understand the outrage.
Ex-international Toni Kroos has defended Gladbach professional Florian Neuhaus in the affair to defend his drunken statements about Roland Virkus. Last week a video appeared on social networks in which Neuhaus speaks drunk about the Gladbach manager during a stay in Mallorca.
Among other things, Neuhaus in the video on his fingers counts his “one, two, three or four million” annual salary, which Virkus pays him. In addition, Virkus is referred to in the video as the “worst manager in the world”, even if this statement cannot be assigned to Neuhaus without any doubt.
Gladbach took Neuhaus with a high fine and also punished him with a four -week exile for the U23. The 28-year-old will miss the season preparation. Managing Director Stefan Stegemann also found clear words: “The behavior and statements of Florian Neuhaus are damaging and unacceptable, he has harmed the club with his words and deeply disappointed, that is not compatible with the values of the association,” he said.
Kroos cannot understand this reaction. In the Podcast “Just Luppe” with his brother Felix Kroos, the ex-Real Madrid star expressed that he found the video “funny”. “I say it right in front: I didn’t think it was bad,” said Kroos. After a disappointing season, Neuhaus’ statements are “by far the most harmless, which footballers otherwise said in discussions about teammates, coaches or those responsible on vacation,” said Kross.
With a smile he pushed afterwards that Neuhaus was even lucky that the video had started too late or stopped too early in order to capture even more serious statements.
Kroos would have liked a more confident handling of the video. “That would have been a really good chance of saying for such a club: we just stand over it,” he said. “This is how footballers talk and not just on vacation,” said Kroos. “He didn’t do anything.”
Kroos in doubt that Neuhaus’ behavior was actually harmful to the association. “Then I give the letter and seal that this statement does not harm anyone.” Because everyone knew in which state Neuhaus made the statements – namely “on the Ballermann with two per thousand and not in an interview”.
“People laugh over it and Borussia Mönchengladbach will be the same Borussia Mönchengladbach as before the video, even if they didn’t suspend the player,” said Kroos. In the end, the club bosses talked about the players the other way around and “that’s okay,” said Kross. “This is football language.”