FC Schalke 04 review by Neururer
“Total incompetence. I see Schalke as leaderless”
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Peter Neururer is a club member of FC Schalke 04. He coached the club from April 1989 to November 1990
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Schalke’s former coach and noble fan Peter Neururer harshly criticizes the Schalke 04 club management. He is ashamed of what is currently going on with the people of Gelsenkirchen. He bluntly states what is going wrong with the club he loves.
Former Bundesliga coach Peter Neururer sharply criticized those responsible at FC Schalke 04 after parting ways with coach Thomas Reis. “That is the big problem at Schalke 04, that at the moment the sporting leadership, whether it is Peter Knäbel or whether it is the sports director, is showing total incompetence,” Neururer told the TV channel Sky on Thursday. The coach did an excellent job and is now the victim.
“I haven’t heard from sports director Peter Knäbel or the sports director that there was any support from the coach or that the team was reprimanded a bit. “That’s why I see the club as leaderless at the moment,” said Neururer.
He is ashamed “of my membership, which I actually support one hundred percent. Schalke 04 needs a face again. Schalke 04 needs someone to keep their hat on. Schalke 04 needs someone who can provide things with objective, sporting and technical expertise,” demands the 68-year-old, who coached the club himself in 1989/90.
“Which coach is willing to do that,” asks Neururer
Finding a new coach is almost impossible. “Which renowned coach or coach who offers me as Schalke 04 the prospect of getting out of this dilemma – which coach is willing to do that?”
One day after leaving Schalke, Reis told the “Sportinformationdienst”: “I found out about my dismissal on Wednesday morning. Of course I was very surprised and disappointed at first. I would have loved to have remained coach at Schalke for a long time.” He was of course aware that the start of the season was “not satisfactory”. Nevertheless, I would have hoped that we would at least try everything together until the international break to achieve a turnaround.”
Shocked by the weak start to the second division, the Bundesliga relegated team parted ways with Reis on Wednesday. “We are also very dissatisfied with the fact that we came to this decision so quickly,” admitted sports director Knäbel afterwards – Reis had only been in office eleven months.
FC Schalke 04 separates from coach Thomas Reis
FC Schalke 04 is parting ways with head coach Thomas Reis with immediate effect. The decision was the result of a “thorough analysis from the past few days,” it said.
Interim coach Matthias Kreutzer, who is 16th in the table, should prepare for the difficult game on Friday at SC Paderborn (6.30 p.m., in the WELT sports ticker) together with assistant coach Mike Büskens. Since the search for a Reis successor is only now beginning and there is no new coach in sight, it is conceivable that the duo will also be responsible against fellow relegated Hertha BSC on October 8th.
But Schalke’s sporting leadership duo indicated that there was no other option. “We have found that the situation is deadlocked both personally and in terms of content,” said Knäbel about the discussions with the team in the past few days and expressed self-criticism: “I have already said several times that I would like continuity in this position. So of course it’s a step backwards.”
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Because Reis was already the eleventh coach of the beleaguered district giant since the runner-up in 2018. This was followed by an unprecedented crash with two relegations. There is no quick improvement in sight. Before the eighth matchday, the relegated team is third from bottom in the 2nd Bundesliga with just seven goals and seven points, and four defeats have already thwarted their high ambitions, which may be too high given the loss of important players in the summer – as Knäbel also indicated on Wednesday.
In addition, the club currently presents an image that reduces the overused slogan “TOGETHER” at Schalke – the first two letters are capitalized in reference to the city of Gelsenkirchen – to absurdity. Now Reis, who was still the beacon of hope in the summer despite the relegation because he had stabilized the stumbling team in the Bundesliga relegation battle for a long time, is said to have at least partially lost the dressing room. There have been whispers behind closed doors about Reis’ tactical and training-specific deficits for some time now.
A memorable TV interview by defender Timo Baumgartl after the 3-1 defeat at FC St. Pauli on Saturday revealed how deep the trenches actually were with parts of the obviously difficult team. “This is crazy, we are playing with fire,” Baumgartl said on Sky and made no effort to conceal criticism of the coach’s tactics. “That’s the coach’s philosophy, he tells us that. That’s why we do it as a team. But it’s clear when you see the first 30 minutes that it’s brutally difficult when the opponent does it well. Standing one-on-one at the back is always risky.”
Schalke’s interim coach Kreutzer has announced tactical changes and a different approach for the Paderborn game. “Thomas had his convictions and I have my convictions. It’s important to convey this right now,” said Kreutzer.
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