Schalke: Sports director Schröder talks about transfers, Thiaw & Co.

“Clubs have woken up”

The fact that FC Schalke 04 wants to thin out its 29-man squad if possible is not new. While players such as Amine Harit, who has returned from loan, continue to speculate that the joint employment relationship will end as quietly as possible, top performers such as Malick Thiaw, most valuable player of the past second division season, could still leave the club. The transfer market is picking up speed a few days before the “Deadline Day” in the Bundesliga, said sports director Rouven Schröder at the press conference before the upcoming duel with Union Berlin.

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“The talks are much more intense when it comes to the whole squad. The clubs have woken up, nationally and internationally. Momentum is coming. I won’t give an update now, it doesn’t fit two days before the game,” said the 46-year-old, who has generated a slight transfer surplus of around one million euros with the Royal Blues this summer (see overview). Thanks to the sales of Ozan Kabak (for 5 million euros to TSG Hoffenheim) and Rabbi Matondo (for 3 million euros to Glasgow Rangers), S04 took a large part of the transfer fee generated to date, but “of course they are still trying to to make the squad even smaller. But it just has to fit. The quality at the accepting club must also be there.”

Markets outside of Germany are also being dealt with a lot, Schröder confirmed with a view to the closing of the transfer window in this country: “Everyone is looking at September 1st, but there are other transfer windows as well. As a club that also wants to sell, we also have an eye on these.” When asked about the Thiaw personnel, for whom an offer from AC Milan was said to have already been made last winter and who in the TM rumor mill was recently also associated with Bologna and Turin in was connected, Schröder kept a low profile.

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Schröder: Schalke must be “prepared” in terms of transfers

“We have to be prepared, that’s clear,” said the sports director about a possible short-term sale of the defender. Coach Frank Kramer added: “He’s one of our players. We know that someone like him arouses desires.” In this regard, the coach described the upcoming opponent Union as a role model. The Berliners “work together and quietly. No one is bigger than the club,” he said.

At least at the beginning of the week there was no official offer for Thiaw, but numerous talks were being held with other clubs, Schröder said at the “WAZ“ on record. “In such preliminary talks, of course, there is a tapping, for example interested parties say: We can go up to a maximum of X – and we then say: That’s not enough for us.” . Euro. “The nice thing is that he has a contract with us and we have it in our hands. We have a certain pride when it comes to the transfer fee,” said Schröder.

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