FC Schalke 04 crisis at the traditional club
Schalke suspends Baumgartl after criticizing coach Reis
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FC Schalke 04 is a long way from returning to the Bundesliga. After the 1:3 loss at FC St. Pauli, the first player publicly doubted Thomas Reis’ tactics. Now the club is reacting. With a drastic measure.
Timo Baumgartl has to train with the FC Schalke 04 U23s in the new week. The club suspended the player from the first team for several days. Schalke announced this on Sunday afternoon. The reason for the penalty is the professional’s public criticism of coach Thomas Reis’ tactics after the 3-1 defeat against FC St. Pauli last Friday evening. Baumgartl spoke in an interview with the TV channel Sky.
The club’s statement says: “In a conversation between sports director André Hechelmann, head coach Thomas Reis and Timo Baumgartl, the player’s violation of internal rules of conduct was acknowledged.”
Timo Baumgartl
Source: dpa/Jürgen Kessler
Hechelmann is quoted as follows: “The sporting management and the coaching team are always ready for a constructive and critical dialogue with the team, as the past few weeks have shown. The prerequisite for this is that this takes place internally – because only then can it be solution-oriented. Timo was insightful in the conversation, admitted his mistake right at the beginning and apologized. We have accepted this.”
Baumgartl also has to pay a fine
After the conversation, Hechelmann and Reis explained the consequences: Baumgartl will spend the training week starting on Monday with the U23s, and the central defender will also pay a fine. According to the club, Baumgartl accepted the sanctions during the conversation.
“What I triggered with my statements was not my intention and should not happen to a player with my experience. That’s why I asked Thomas Reis and André Hechelmann to apologize and I’m very happy that they accepted it. I know that I am now challenged,” says Baumgartl.
After the recent bankruptcy, he indirectly criticized Reis’ tactics. “Sometimes we run after men, then there are positions on top of each other – there is no compactness. That’s our big problem,” criticized the former Bundesliga professional from VfB Stuttgart and 1. FC Union Berlin in an interview with the pay-TV channel Sky on Saturday evening: “We are always one step too late.” The risky style of play is “the philosophy of Coach, he tells us that and that’s why we do it as a team,” added Baumgartl.
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When asked about the 27-year-old’s statements late on Saturday evening, Reis reacted irritably. On the one hand, he said he hadn’t seen the interview. “On the other hand, I am the first to touch my own nose. And I expect the same from my players,” said Reis in the press conference after the game.
He rejected criticism that he played too man-oriented. “As soon as we were active, as soon as we played more man-oriented, we won the duels and prevented Pauli from building up the game well,” emphasized the 49-year-old. As soon as the players fell into passivity, they ran after the opponents.
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