BERLIN (AP) – Suspensions, injuries and coronavirus, the Schalke will have to hope that it may not get worse.
At the bottom of the Bundesliga after a record 24 games without winning in two seasons, Schalke turns out to be a smart candidate to match Tasmania’s record of 31 league games without a 1965–66 win.
Regardless, Schalke coach Manuel Baum is suffering to form a team for Saturday’s league match at Borussia Monchengladbach.
The club announced on Thursday that an anonymous player had taken the COVID-19 test a day earlier, and joined the disabled list of strikers Gonoalo Paciancia and Ahmed Kutucu, extreme Rabbi Matondo, central defender Salif Sané and goalkeeper Ralf Fuhrmann.
To get on all this, experienced striker Vedad Ibisevic is about to leave, and Algerian midfielder Nabil Bentaleb and Moroccan midfielder Amine Harit were suspended through the club on Tuesday, when technical director Michael Reschke agreed to leave with immediate effect.
Reschke, who joined gelsenkirchen-based club in 2019, guilty of team planning, among other tasks.
“At the end of the day, we had another vision of the club’s future,” director Jochen Schneider said.
The 36-year-old Ibisevic, who joined Schalke on a one-season deal on September 3, will see his contract terminated on December 31, while Schneider said Bentaleb had to leave at the end of this season “at the latest” “.
Ibisevic was punished for a passionate verbal exchange with Baum’s assistant, Naldo, in training.
Harit refused to admit Baum in the 38th minute of Schalke’s 2-0 home defeat to Wolfsburg last weekend. French defender Benjamin Stambouli also expressed his displeasure at being eliminated at the break from defeat, but went unpunished.
“We talked to Benji, it’s all settled,” Schneider said on the club’s website.
Baum defended the club’s disciplinary action despite what imaginable will affect Saturday’s match.
“No player will be able to put his own ego above the team. It is vital that we have 11 or more players in the area who will play with general enthusiasm and commitment,” Baum said. “The team was also pleased that decisions were made this way.
Baum, who appointed Schalke’s coach on 30 September, has overseen three draws and three losses since taking office, as well as a 4–1 victory over 4-1 Schweinfurt, fourth-placed, in the German Cup.
Baum had worked with the young Germans after being fired by Augsburg in April 2019, the team dangerously close to the relegation zone.
“Our biggest challenge is that the effects disappoint every week,” Baum said of his most recent challenges.
Schalke’s last victory came against Gladbach on 17 January, but Marco Rose’s appearance has been forged in the Bundesliga so far. Gladbach has 3 wins and 3 draws in 8 games, while also being inspired by the Champions League. Gladbach beat Shakhtar Donetsk 4-0 on Wednesday.
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