Ralf Rangnick has to make Schalke 04 a German top club again. BILD know to report on Friday that the trainer cum football driver in Gelsenkirchen will become the new sports director. Rangnick has already reached an outline agreement on long-term employment in his first talks with Schalke 04, the German newspaper asserts.
Rangnick was previously active as Schalke’s head coach over two periods (September 2004 to December 2005 and March to September 2011). Die Königsblauen are deep at the bottom of the Bundesliga and seem to be unable to avert relegation to the second German level. Rangnick is tasked with creating a team with which the recently appointed Dimitrios Grammozis can return to the highest division as soon as possible.
The 62-year-old Rangnick considers the job according to BILD as his last trick and wants to commit to Schalke for five years. The former trainer of RB Leipzig wants to cause a sensation by promoting to the Bundesliga with the youngest team ever. In this way, Rangnick wants to regain part of Schalke’s runaway supporters and make the club attractive to sponsors again.
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