After a year in the second division, FC Schalke is back in the Bundesliga. Manager Rouven Schröder assures that the Royal Blues have learned from the mistakes of the past – and want to bake small rolls first.
There is probably no climber who does not spend the league as the ultimate goal. And although their own fans are secretly hoping for more, FC Schalke will also make sporting survival in the upper house a priority.
“We will not lose our humility, I can say that,” assured Schalke’s sports director Rouven Schröder in the “Sport Bild” interview that the miners will show new modesty after returning to the Bundesliga.
For the club, the first thing to do is stay in the league. After that, Schröder and Co. want to “gradually re-establish themselves in the Bundesliga,” said the manager, who described the comeback year in the upper house as a “big challenge” for which FC Schalke will “prepare well”.
Schröder thanks Schalke employees
Schröder himself was in the public eye more or less through his own fault in the season that is now ending, after all he decided to sack ex-coach Dimitros Grammozis during the second half of the season. However, Schröder also knows that the rise might not have been possible without Grammozis’ work.
“Dimi looked after the team for large parts of the season and shared in this success with his coaching team,” said Schröder about the ex-coach of the Knappen. Meanwhile, Büskens and his coaching team are “infinitely grateful,” emphasized the manager.
Schröder also addressed words of praise to the many people who worked in the background to get back on the rise: “What the employees have invested in getting up again after falling and making it back up – a huge compliment!”
Of course, the manager also gave compliments to promotion hero Simon Terodde, who with his 29 goals has perhaps the largest share in the return of the Bundesliga: “When you see how he celebrates every goal in training, how he gives 100 percent every second – that’s one Joy for every Schalke.”