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Gelsenkirchen (AP) - Huub Stevens has high hopes for the transfer of ex-national player Shkodran Mustafi to the relegation-threatened Bundesliga club FC Schalke 04. «He has experience, is a leader on the field.
I just hope very hard that he will find his rhythm again to be important on the lawn.
Then Mustafi is an absolute win, "said the 67-year-old, who is retiring from the Schalke Supervisory Board at the end of the season after three years in office, in an interview with Sport1 (Tuesday).
The Gelsenkirchen team had a spectacular player swap on Monday at the end of the transfer period.
The Turkish international Ozan Kabak is on loan to the English champions FC Liverpool with coach Jürgen Klopp until the end of the season.
But defender Mustafi from Arsenal FC came to the bottom of the table.
«Kabak is of course a loss.
I hope that Mustafi can be the desired replacement for Kabak, ”said Stevens.
The departure of defender Kabak, for whom Liverpool has a purchase option, is "a shame", but in the current situation Schalke could not wish for anything.
Kabak himself said goodbye on social media.
«It was a place that I called my home for a year and a half.
I would like to thank all of my team-mates and coaches with whom we fought together in my time, "wrote the 20-year-old.
He has no doubt that Schalke "will soon reach the level of success that this club deserves."
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With only eight points from 19 games so far and a gap to the saving bank of nine points, Schalke, which also won Klaas-Jan Huntelaar (Ajax Amsterdam), Sead Kolasinac (Arsenal FC) and William (VfL Wolfsburg), is under great pressure.
In the DFB Cup, the guest appearance in Wolfsburg is on Wednesday.
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