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Eight years and eight months after leaving the Young Boys, Christian Gross returns to European football. The 66-year-old Zurich signed a contract with Schalke, the bottom of the Bundesliga table, until the end of the season.
Now it is official what has been speculated in the media for days: Christian Gross is supposed to make the great club Schalke, which has been lurching for months, back on track and after 30 years of membership in the Bundesliga, avoid relegation to the 2nd division. Big will be Schalke’s fourth manager this season.
The task at Schalke is quite difficult. Schalke have not won a game this season and have only scored four points in 13 rounds. The gap to third from the bottom of the league, promoted Arminia Bielefeld, who is ranked in Barrage’s spot, is six points. Schalke have not won a season in 29 games. The latest success dates back to January 17.
For Gross it is the second meeting in the Bundesliga. In the 2009/10 season he had pulled VfB Stuttgart out of the relegation zone to the Europa League, but was then sacked in autumn 2010 after a poor start to the season. This was followed by a nine-month stint with the Young Boys in 2011/12, before former Grasshoppers and Basel head coach Gross turned his back on coaching Europe and worked in Saudi Arabia and Egypt between 2014 and 2020. .
