Report: Schalke 04 and Peter Knäbel are separating in the summer

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FC Schalke 04 and sports director Peter Knäbel are apparently separating after the current season. According to information from the German Press Agency, the 57-year-old’s contract, which expires in the summer, will not be extended. Knäbel is not available for another term of office.

The Gelsenkirchen team is currently lagging far behind their own demands in the 2nd league. Instead of playing for direct promotion, the Bundesliga relegated team is in the relegation relegation zone. Coach Thomas Reis has already replaced Schalke with the Belgian Karel Geraerts.

Recently, however, there has been repeated criticism of the composition of the squad, which Knäbel was mainly responsible for. Sports director André Hechelmann will now focus even more on transfers in the coming winter change period. A new chief scout, Christoph Kresse, was recently hired.

Schalke’s supervisory board chairman Axel Hefer had recently expressed unconditional trust in neither Knäbel nor Hechelmann: “Our roadmap is in place, as we have already communicated several times. It’s not just about sporting leadership: we have to analyze the content of why the start of the season went wrong. We have to understand that. And I suspect that the answer can’t just be that it was solely the coach’s fault.”

Knäbel initially came to the traditional club from the Ruhr area as technical director in April 2018. He was appointed to the board in March 2021.

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