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On November 24, 1994, a boy was born in Lille, in northern France, to whom Madame and Monsieur Bentaleb gave the name Nabil. As usual, Nabil Bentaleb received congratulations from his employer on his 26th birthday, and on Tuesday morning Schalke 04 posted a good luck message on Twitter. But then they obviously changed their minds about Ernst-Kuzorra-Weg and removed the congratulations again. That made the club look like a gentleman who brings flowers to his wife and takes them an hour later. “Why do you delete something like that?” Wrote a horrified Twitter user.
But this was only Schalke’s first action, which caused astonishment on Tuesday. Shortly after 4.30pm on an eventful day, the club announced that it had decimated its already meager level of management with another member: 63-year-old manager Michael Reschke is leaving Schalke with immediate effect. “In the end, there were different opinions on the sporting future of the club,” said sporting director Jochen Schneider. The old close relationship between Schneider and Reschke had recently turned into a strained one. The two men disagreed on key issues, including team formation.
The club is going through a financial crisis, a sports crisis, a leadership crisis and a cabinet crisis at the same time
As for the demonstrably unsuccessful job of coach David Wagner in the summer (16 straight games without a win in the second half of the previous season), Schneider prevailed by virtue of his position. However, Wagner only stayed two more days of play, then his defender put him on leave and he had to endure public criticism. In the summer, Reschke had asked to replace Wagner. Now reports are circulating dealing with another problem said to have caused division. Apparently Reschke had offered Captain Omar Mascarell for sale at Hertha BSC in the summer and never told his boss. That would have been a valid reason for the divorce, but according to SZ information, the case was reversed: Hertha initiated the initiative, Schneider was informed and rejected the application.
If Donald Trump were the president of FC Schalke 04, even he would not dare to deny that things are going crazy in the white clubhouse. The club is going through a financial crisis, a sports crisis, an identity crisis, a leadership crisis and a cabinet crisis at the same time. Each of these crises has reached devastating proportions. Schalke appears to be weakened at all critical points, the rest of the squad seem overwhelmed and divided. You can’t talk about 1000 friends standing together like in a club song.
By the way, there was also an injury crisis on Tuesday: Bastian Oczipka had to stop training and be transported due to a muscle injury. Although he is just one player, the left-back is considered irreplaceable at Schalke, simply because he is the only left-back on the squad to qualify for the Bundesliga.
While Oczipka was being brought in for an investigation, Bentaleb’s birthday also took its unfortunate course. He has known Schalke for a long time when it comes to treacherous congratulations. A year and a half ago, head coach Huub Stevens warmly congratulated him on the birth of the twins, only to immediately publicly state that this would not change the player’s situation. Stevens had suspended Bentaleb because he hadn’t been in the stands at a home game. Bentaleb explaining the absence with the expected date at the hospital did him no good. A few weeks later, Stevens brought him back to the team, but soon kicked him out a second time for disciplinary reasons.
Harit and Bentaleb are apparently no longer part of the team.
In this sense, nothing unusual happened on Tuesday when sports director Schneider ordered the Franco-Algerian professional to attend the next hearing. In the evening, Schalke confirmed that Bentaleb was excluded from team operations until further notice and was required to undergo individual training. It was not recorded whether Schneider had previously congratulated the person in question on his birthday. Amine Harit, 23, also had to agree on the report and is no longer part of the team. The two are accused of disrespecting head coach Manuel Baum and his assistant.
Harit had to leave the field to be substituted in the 38th minute of the game against Wolfsburg (0: 2) on Saturday by order of the coach and then stormed into the locker room without a greeting. The feud between assistant coach Naldo and Vedad Ibisevic, which led to training interruption on Sunday, was almost a side note with all this excitement. But the 36-year-old Ibisevic, whom Reschke beat with Schalke at cost, has to leave the club at the end of the year. Schneider said in the evening: “Unfortunately, it didn’t work out here at Schalke as we promised together. I would like to emphasize that the emotional outburst in training last Sunday has nothing to do with this decision at all, something like that happens in football.” .
What was reported about defender Benjamin Stambouli was also sensational: The 30-year-old vice captain left the stadium on Saturday after coach Baum replaced him at halftime. This narrative of the image However, Schalke rejected it as a “false report”. There are “testimonies and video recordings” that relieve the player of the representation, the club reported. Jochen Schneider, who in the summer (against Reschke’s vote) had the continued employment of Stambouli, announced that the Frenchman was disappointed with the replacement, but they had spoken to him: “Everything has been clarified … Benji gives everything for the our every day Society. “
