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Meanwhile it seems to be undisputed that players at Schalke's club bosses have spoken out in favor of replacing coach Christian Gross with a new one.

At the beginning of the week, after information from "Bild", Sead Kolasinac, Klaas-Jan Huntelaar and Shkodran Mustafi sought a conversation with the sporting leadership around sports director Jochen Schneider and team manager Sascha Riether.

According to the report, her goal was to overthrow coach Gross.

Your message: With the 66-year-old Swiss, a further and, above all, promising collaboration is no longer possible.

Schalke denied that there had been a rebellion.

"There is talk of revolution, and there was no revolution at all," said licensed player boss Sascha Riether.

He was asked whether players had come to see him.

“Basically, players always come to me.

Thats my job.

I won't say what exactly happened, ”he replied.

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Sport1, the Funke media group and Sky were the first to report that players should have complained about Gross’s work and asked for the replacement of Gross from head of sport Jochen Schneider.

But Schneider refused to do so.

Gross says he didn't confront the players

Kolasinac and Mustafi were still in the starting XI in the game at VfB Stuttgart on Saturday.

In the midst of this renewed unrest, the relegation of FC Schalke 04 from the Bundesliga is getting closer and closer.

The team lost again, this time with 1: 5 (1: 3).

Negligent defense in set pieces led to the next defeat, the goal of captain Kolasinac (40th) was too little.

Nabil Bentaleb missed with a missed penalty (72nd) to bring Schalke to 2: 3 and to be able to hope for a point.

The Swiss tall is already the fourth Schalke coach this season - but there are no signs of improvement.

The knocked-off bottom of the table is again eight games without a success.

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He didn't confront the players, said Gross.

"I just basically said how I see it, if you had a problem with me, that you would have to come to me and we would look at it together and address it openly and directly." But that did not happen, he assured me.

Gross also ruled out a resignation after the debacle.

"No no.

I started this mission.

For me there is no giving up, never, ”he said.

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The question now was how to position the players who are said to have sawn on his chair.

Mustafi introduced himself consciously as he said.

The defensive player was asked whether he was there when players asked the club management to remove Gross.

Mustafi replied evasively.

It is important for him that he wants to do his job: “I'm here to perform, to help the team that we win games.

That's what's in my hand, and that's what's in every hand of a player. "

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It is not the time, he lectured further, “where we have to try to make one want to do the job of the other.

Everyone has to do their own job.

For us players, the job is to go out on the pitch and leave everything on the pitch that you can leave on the pitch.

If you've lost, you can go into the dressing room and say: We gave everything, they were better than us.

At the moment, we can't always do that.

I think at the moment we can't always do that, that we can give even more, that we have to try even more to win a game. ”Whether he was there or not, Mustafi left these comments open.

In the end, there were only more questions left.

Schalke's goalkeeper Michael Langer was therefore asked whether there had been a player revolt.

He also failed to answer, but was able to elicit at least one commitment per Gross. “We value the coach extremely, he has great authority.

I do not want to comment on what has been said.

That doesn't affect my area of ​​responsibility, ”he said.

He is there “to perform in sports, and when we defend like that, then the coach is the poorest pig.

We have to grab our own nose and question what each individual can do better ”.

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