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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - Schalke's helper in dire need should be Christian Gross.

The 66-year-old Swiss should protect the tumbling Revierclub from relegation from the Bundesliga.

This is reported by the “Ruhr Nachrichten” and “Bild” in unison after a board meeting on Wednesday evening.

There, the heavily criticized sports director Jochen Schneider picked up the permission to commit his preferred candidate to the Schalke rescue by next summer.

The association did not initially confirm the personnel in the evening.

If this happens over Christmas, Gross could lead the training on Monday as the successor to Huub Stevens' interim solution.

The former coach of VfB Stuttgart (2009-2010) would already be the fourth coach of the bottom of the table without a win this season.

The traditional club had previously separated from David Wagner and Manuel Baum before Schalke's “coach of the century” took over Stevens for two games.

Since Schneider's first dream solution with the hapless tree failed, the 50-year-old Schalke sports board is also considered ailing.

Should Gross not be able to save the club from relegation, Schneider is unlikely to be kept.

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Both Wagner and Baum are still on the payroll at the financially troubled club.

And a Herculean task awaits the new trainer.

After the recent 0-1 home defeat against promoted Arminia Bielefeld, Schalke are already six points behind relegation place 16. Tasmania Berlin's negative Bundesliga record with 31 games without a win is not far away for the traditional club.

In 2020, Schalke only managed one Bundesliga victory, on January 17 in a 2-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

After the separation from Wagner, the solution with Baum had not proven itself either.

In ten Bundesliga games, he has drawn four and lost six.

Former Stevens first suffered the next setback against Bielefeld (0: 1) during his interlude, but then led the team to at least the last 16 of the DFB Cup in the 3: 1 against SSV Ulm on Tuesday evening.

At the start of the new year, the Royal Blues will compete at Hertha BSC on January 2nd.

In addition to Gross, the veterans Friedhelm Funkel and Armin Veh as well as Alexander Zorniger, Dimitrios Grammozis and Marc Wilmots were recently traded.

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