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If the interpretation is not deceptive, relegation no longer plays a major role for Schalke 04.
More or less ticked off due to the lack of hopelessness, that could have been the message.
In any case, it was no longer a big issue on Wednesday afternoon when Dimitrios Grammozis was officially introduced as the fifth coach of the bottom of the table this season.
In any case, he himself did not pay much attention to it when he was asked about it.
It was also noticeable that Grammozis apparently has no problem with repeatedly not being the first choice at Schalke 04 in the recent past.
At least that's what he says.
Twice, it can be assumed after his presentation, that he was spurned.
He was under discussion as the successor to David Wagner, who was then replaced by Manuel Baum, and then again before the engagement of Christian Gross, who was dismissed at the weekend.
Grammozis did not disagree.
In the conference with him, therefore, the pretty picture was sketched of the loved one who had proposed to Grammozis twice and by whom he was twice spurned.
He was asked whether he had not thought at some point that Schalke could best slip his back on him instead of doing the third application again.
“It is important,” said the native Wuppertal, “that you stick with it when you are convinced of the bride.
It can then take maybe three or four times. ”The initially unrequited love for a club or the feeling that one develops for it, he said,“ did not cause him any irritation.
I always had the feeling, when it didn't work out, that it spurred me on even more to achieve this feeling at some point ”.
Basement duel against Mainz for the debut
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The starting point for this was favorable.
At Schalke, almost all imaginable coaching models have now been exhausted, and after the quake on Sunday, the completely dismissed club leadership with Jochen Schneider at the top was no longer a hurdle. And so Grammozis found a contact person in the new boss Peter Knäbel who tied the knot with him wanted to enter.
"It can be said that he brought the bride to the husband," said Grammozis.
For the 42-year-old Dimitrios Grammozis, Schalke is the first Bundesliga station.
Before that, he only worked for the second division Darmstadt 98 in a higher class
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The future is anything but bright, in the league no task is more complicated than his.
The team is considered to be difficult to train with difficult characters, the squad is running and the speed of action is the slowest in the league in years - and the first task for the Grammozis, who did not have any Bundesliga experience, was a tough one.
Because the cellar duel on Friday evening (8.30 p.m., DAZN and in the sports ticker of the WELT) with the penultimate from Mainz is probably the last chance for a trend reversal.
With eleven game days before the end of the season, Schalke are already nine points behind relegation position 16.
The new Schalke sports director Knäbel is in good spirits that the new coach will make a good debut: "He is the right man at the right time in the right place."
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Knäbel himself was also able to record a small ray of hope on Wednesday.
The final move from Weston McKennie to Juventus Turin gives the financially troubled club more financial planning security.
The Italian record champions sign the previously loaned 22-year-old midfielder from the USA prematurely.
The highly indebted Revierklub receives almost 20 million euros for this.
McKennie came to Schalke in 2016 and played 91 times for the club.
Last summer, the clammy Gelsenkirchen McKennie loaned out to superstar Cristiano Ronaldo's club.
Since then, he has appeared for Juve 31 times.
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