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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - FC Schalke 04 plans to continue with coach Dimitrios Grammozis for the coming season in the 2nd Bundesliga despite continued unsuccessfulness.
"We definitely intend to continue with him," said sports director Peter Knäbel on Sky90 on Sunday.
Regardless of the 2: 4 defeat the day before at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, in which the bottom of the Bundesliga itself gambled away a 2-0 break in a questionable manner, Knäbel considers doubts about the football teacher to be inappropriate: “He is an excellent one Expert and trainer. "
Knäbel asked for patience with Grammozis, whose team, under his direction as Schalke's head coach, only scored four points in eight games.
“When we signed him up, we knew how difficult it was.
We also had to take something with us that wasn't to be expected.
When we think of the riots after the game in Bielefeld.
That gave five days of training interruption, ”said Käbel, referring to the attack by some fans on the team two weeks ago.
Corona cases would have made the work of Grammozis even more difficult: "That disrupted this whole rhythm and lets the quality, which the trainer undoubtedly has, appear in a different light."
On the other hand, Knäbel left the future of the 37-year-old attacker Klaas-Jan Huntelaar open: “We are in talks with him.
But I'm not doing any public squad planning now. "
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Knäbel did not want to pass the immediate resurgence as a goal for the coming season: “I think we can only say that when the transfer market is over.
When we have made our decisions and think we have enough arguments.
It is very clear that we have ambitions. "
That was documented with the commitments of the Mainz midfielder Danny Latza (31) and the Hamburg striker Simon Terodde (33).
"If you get players like Latza and Terodde, you can't tell them, given their age, that it will somehow work in two or three years," said Knäbel.
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