Frank Kramer takes over the Royal Blues for the new season, but the choice of the new Schalke coach also met with a lot of rejection among the fans of the Royal Blues – now the club is commenting on the reactions.
The choice came as a surprise: Frank Kramer will be the new coach of FC Schalke 04, will be on the sidelines of the Bundesliga returnees in the 2022/23 season and is supposed to stabilize the Royal Blues back in the Bundesliga. Previously, various other names were traded for the Schalke bench, but former Bielefeld coach Kramer was not among the candidates.
And: A significant number of S04 fans don’t necessarily seem to support the decision of the club’s management level – the feedback on the Internet was at times devastating, so negative that Schalke now felt compelled to react. Sports director Rouven Schröder made it clear on Tuesday: “It is an issue for society as a whole that people judge quickly. That 95 percent say directly: ‘No.'”
Appeal from Knäbel
Board member Peter Knäbel also said: “In my opinion, personal hostilities on the Internet among club mates are not appropriate” – and drew parallels to the Max Eberl case. The long-time manager of Borussia Mönchengladbach had announced his resignation in January, the background was an exhaustion syndrome, Eberl had also complained about public pressure.
After that, you made a lot of good resolutions for dealing with each other, says Knäbel. Therefore he calls on “all Schalke players to treat Schalke players the way they would like their clubmates to be treated. I think there is a red line there too.”