5 Bundesliga players Premier League clubs should be targeting in January

#2 Max Kruse (Werder Bremen)

FC Basel v VfL Wolfsburg - Friendly Match

Returning to Werder Bremen in 2014 following a seven-year absence, Max Kruse is arguably their best player in what is a poor side.

There was a lot of hype surrounding his return and while he’s most certainly lived up to that, he’s too good for this Bremen team that has recently dismissed their head coach, Alexander Nouri.

Sitting in or close to the relegation zone for much of the 2016/17 campaign, Kruse was their standout performer and the player that helped them up to an eighth-place finish. However, things haven’t improved this season with the club currently sitting 17th, without a single win.

At 29, like Burgstaller it’s now or never if he’d like to test himself in the Premier League. With 129 games in the Bundesliga for Werder Bremen, St. Pauli, Borussia Mönchengladbach and VfL Wolfsburg combined, Kruse has scored 57 goals, creating 50, while he’s also played at the highest level, turning out for Germany.

Most of his goals have come inside the area and with his left foot, but it’s arguably his mental abilities that make him the player he is. Kruse’s ability to find pockets of space inside the oppositions third is up there alongside some of the best, while his composure to pick out a teammate often goes unnoticed.

If he was to have better players around him at a club like Everton, then maybe Kruse will get the recognition he deserves.