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Eight years and eight months after his dismissal from YB, Christian Gross returns to European football. The zurich signed with Schalke, last in 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. .
Fans shoot the board
The enthusiasm of the Schalke team is limited at the moment. Sports director Jochen Schneider is fired upon by many fans on social media. It’s unclear if the allegations are directly related to Christian Gross – the 50-year-old sports official has been criticized in S04 for some time.
Individual supporters view Christian Gross’s personality as problematic. Especially the latest collaboration between Schneider and Gross, which ended in a split, causes a frown.
But there are also hopeful fans. Gross will get his first chance to score big points with his new club on January 2 at Hertha Berlin.
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