Gelsenkirchen - It is not known what Schalke's manager was just thinking on Friday evening at the team hotel in Hanover, less than 20 hours before the re-opening round at the 96ern. But it is known that there was a knock at the door. There was a total surprise: Kevin Kuranyi!
What happened next, says Andreas Mueller thus: "He came in and asked if there was a request by another club for him."
What kind of game preparation! Three days before the transfer deadline, Muller took his longtime striker once the air out of his change-thinking games.
The Schalke manager who is fighting for an extension of the contract expires Kuranyis 2010: "I told Kevin that there is not a single offer from another club for him. Neither writing nor by mail or telephone. I also told him that he would get this transfer window, never to release. Kevin is now for sale! We need him. "
Nevertheless, the question remains Kuranyis hotel room attack: Does a man who sees his future to Schalke? From Kuranyis environment is asked to understand: the hostility of the fans would have taken him emotionally, to the crash area sports clubs, and the outflow of ex-service providers such as gravity.
And concern for Schalke's future: Would Rafinha stars like Jones or remain in the summer, when not even play Schalke in the UEFA Cup? Hardly.
Schalke fought on anyway. To save the season, too. Kuranyi and move around to stay. Already the crisis duel Saturday against Bremen will be pioneering. Mueller said yesterday: "Football is daily business. In the summer can change our attitude to Kuranyi transfer."
