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Swiss Christian Gross will likely be FC Schalke 04’s new coach. According to information from WDR, the 66-year-old will sign a contract on Christmas Day.
Initially, the “Bild” and the “Ruhr Nachrichten” reported on it, but the association did not initially confirm the staff in the evening. For the past six years, Gross worked for Al-Ahli Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and for Zamalek SC of Cairo in Egypt.
If the contract is signed on Saturday, Gross could already lead the training Monday as the successor to the Huub Stevens interim solution. The former coach of VfB Stuttgart (2009-2010) would already be the fourth coach from the bottom of the table without winning this season.
The fourth coach after Wagner, Baum and Stevens
The traditional club had previously parted ways with David Wagner and Manuel Baum before Schalke’s “manager of the century” took over Stevens for two games. Since Jochen Schneider’s first desired solution with the hapless tree failed, the 50-year-old Schalke sports board is also considered sick. If Gross can’t save the club from relegation, Schneider is unlikely to stick around. Both Wagner and Baum are still on the club’s payroll in financial trouble.
And a Herculean task awaits the new coach. After the recent 1-0 loss at home to promoted Arminia Bielefeld, Schalke are already six points behind relegation position 16. Tasmanian Bundesliga Berlin’s negative record of 31 games without a win is not far off for the club. traditional. In 2020, Schalke only managed a victory in the Bundesliga, on 17 January in a 2-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
At least in the DFB Cup
After Wagner’s separation, the Baum solution was also unsuccessful. In ten Bundesliga games, he drew four and lost six. The former Stevens suffered the next setback against Bielefeld (0: 1) in his interlude, but then led the team to at least the knockout stages of the DFB Cup in a 3-1 win against SSV Ulm on Tuesday night.
Stevens wanted to convey his “impressions” from the five-day interlude as interim coach, “what kind of coach is needed” and therefore “make a phone call or two in the next few days.” After all, the winner of the 1997 UEFA Cup is once again responsible for the Supervisory Board.
Lowest possible basic salary?
A veteran with clear announcements and experience in the battle for relegation – that was the qualifying profile. In addition, the “firefighter” will receive the lowest possible base salary and a high premium in the event of success in view of the approximately € 240 million in debt and the contracts still in force with Wagner and Baum.
At the start of the new year, the Royal Blues will compete at the Hertha BSC on January 2. In addition to Gross, veterans Friedhelm Funkel and Armin Veh, as well as Alexander Zorniger, Dimitrios Grammozis and Marc Wilmots were recently traded.
Those: wdr.de
