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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - Club icon Olaf Thon has called for a “radical cut” in the team after FC Schalke 04's relegation from the Bundesliga.
“A lot of this team have to leave, otherwise we won't be able to get out of this vortex,” the 1990 world champion told the German Press Agency: “This group is anemic, there is nothing left to get out of it.
The child fell into the well. "
In the entire environment, the club must "quickly become a unit, from the board of directors to the team, down to the bus driver," said Thon, who played for Schalke from 1980 to 1988 and from 1994 to 2002.
Today he works as a representative, department head of the traditional team and in sponsorship acquisition for the royal blues.
After the 1-0 defeat in Bielefeld, which sealed the fourth relegation, he felt “more bitterness than sadness.
The grief has been split somewhat over the past ten weeks.
But you didn't deserve anything else with the statistics and these appearances. "
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Thon is cautiously optimistic about the coming season.
"Experts who know the 2nd division well say that it will be more about a midfield position than promotion," said the 54-year-old.
"But I believe in the strength of the Schalke 04 tanker."
He had also offered to get more involved, "but the ones I spoke to are all no longer there," said Thon.
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