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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - The loss of the game on Saturday gives FC Schalke 04 important time to process.
After a soccer game, nobody would feel like it, not only because of relegation, which was sealed on Tuesday.
The mental processing of the fan attacks from Wednesday night is still in full swing, the club is still in shock.
The fact that the game against Hertha BSC was canceled due to the corona quarantine of the Berliners now gives the professionals plenty of room for an important decision that sports director Peter Knäbel has left to them. "If someone does not want to play the remaining four games for Schalke, I can live with this position," quoted the "Bild" Knäbel. Since the Bundesliga is paused the following weekend because of the cup semi-finals, the next game of the Royal Blues will not take place until May 8th in Hoffenheim. The scenes, some of which are apparently bad, are at least two and a half weeks behind them.
"We have sent a message: If someone needs help, whether physically or mentally, he should get in touch," reported Knäbel at Sky.
After training on Wednesday and Thursday was canceled at short notice, you now «go into talks with the players and try to work up what needs to be worked up.
If external help is needed, we would take it. "
Although he “currently assumes that everyone is doing so well.
But we are sure that it will take some more discussions. "
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Physically everyone involved is doing well, said Knäbel. Team coordinator Gerald Asamoah described the extent of the incidents, noticeably upset. Two images in particular were burned into his head. "An employee was lying on the floor and was kicked," reported the ex-international. And about his colleague Mike Büskens, he said: "I'll never forget the fear in Bujo's eyes."
The Gelsenkirchen police, who reported "massive aggression" by the 500 to 600 supporters against Schalke when they returned from Bielefeld from 1-0, now want to investigate the events with an investigative commission. Schalke has not yet submitted an official application for police protection. “The association has not yet asked for it,” said a spokesman for the police in Gelsenkirchen: “But we are doing a risk analysis anyway. And depending on what we come to, we would also work independently. " Knäbel has already announced: "We will train with increased attention."
DFL managing director Christian Seifert, who condemned the fans' attacks on the team “in the strongest” and declared that “something like this has no place in the Bundesliga”, would like a clear statement from the fan base.
“In the past few months, numerous developments in professional football have rightly been criticized, in some cases sharply.
Most recently, the planning of a Super League by some clubs, "Seifert said to" 11 Friends ":" Now it would also look good for one or the other fan organization to take a clear and perceptible position on the escalation on Schalke.
When we talk about undesirable developments, we must not ignore verbal and especially physical violence and must condemn it without any ifs or buts. "
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