Real Madrid's Toni Kroos could miss January schedule with adductor tear

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The FC crew answer your tweets on Santi Solari's future at Real Madrid, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's chances of becoming Man United's permanent manager & more. Real Madrid's injury concerns worsened on Monday when they confirmed midfielder Toni Kroos has suffered a torn adductor muscle and looks set to miss most of the January schedule.

Kroos was substituted late in Sunday's limp 0-2 La Liga defeat to Real Sociedad, and now joins Gareth Bale, Marco Asensio, Marcos Llorente and Mariano Diaz as senior players unavailable to under-fire coach Santi Solari.

The news came in a Madrid club statement which said the injury was a "grade 2 tear" but did not specify...