Hierarchy at Schalke: Büskens under rice with a smaller role
Mike Bueskens, Thomas Reis
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Mike Büskens takes on a smaller role at Schalke from now on. Thomas Reis and his confidant Markus Gellhaus make sure of that.
Because Thomas Reis was able to bring his close trust to Schalke 04 with Markus Gellhaus, Mike Büskens now plays a smaller role in the newly formed coaching team. The new head coach made that very clear.
In the summer, it was an important criterion for those responsible for Schalke that the new coach does not insist on his own staff and does not bring his own assistant coach with him. Instead, Mike Büskens and Matthias Kreutzer, who had managed to return to the Bundesliga together, should continue to be the focus of the coaching team.
A requirement that backfired properly. On the one hand, because a number of candidates canceled – until only Frank Kramer remained. He came to terms with this limitation. On the other hand, because the concept has now been thrown overboard again after Kramer’s unsurprising failure. In the end, a lot of time was wasted.
Reis outlines hierarchy in the coaching team – Büskens moves back
Thomas Reis was allowed to bring Markus Gellhaus with him. When asked about the new distribution of roles within the coaching team at the press conference on Thursday, Reis declared him his “first point of contact” (via table football).
That became clear in the first game last weekend: Reis and Gellhaus were still a bit in front of the coaching bench. Büskens and Co. accordingly took a seat behind them. An image that describes the new hierarchy well.
Reis called Büskens a “link to the U23”. He is actually that too, a very important contact person for the younger players who keep coming up. And yet he took the Schalke legend quite clearly out of focus. After all, he also made it clear that ‘Buyo’ does not play a major role in the professional team. He praised Kreutzer as a “coach colleague with a good eye”.
It is possible that there is a lot of interpretation in these statements – but they also offer a lot of leeway. It is clear one way or the other: For Reis, Gellhaus as an assistant is clearly the focus.
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This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as Hierarchy at Schalke: Büskens under rice with a smaller role released.