Raman calculates with Schalke 04: I was fed up

Benito Raman has left FC Schalke 04 in the summer after two years. Now the 26-year-old has billed with his former employer.

If I had stayed on Schalke half a year, I stopped playing football. I had the nose full of what happened there, Raman said to the Belgian newspapers les sports and het Nieuwsblad.

Schalke 04 had risen in the season 2020/21 after a yield of only 16 points from the Bundesliga. Nevertheless, the coaches David Wagner, Manuel Tree, Huub Stevens, Christian Gross and Dimitrios Grammozis (everyone in a season S04 coach) had always attempted to keep the club in class. The players also have never the feeling, that we would descend, Raman said, Up to the moment when we really have risen.

However, the royal blue did not come out of the negative spiral, the attacker accounted for. Especially the time under Gross was raman as bad. He did not even know our names, we had no tactical training, Raman said about the Swiss, who was released after eleven play again.

The tactics have finally had experienced players. On the day before the game against Bayern, we played on mini-football gates and not prepared us tactically. Once he asked a player who was injured for a long time: 'Ah, are you injured?' Raman led out.

Raman about fan violence: Have police protection requested

But not only the unprofessionality of Gross had thought him about a career end. The fan violence of the Schalke pendant shocked him. After the secure descent on the 30th matchday by a 0-1 defeat in Bielefeld, the players were received by an angry MOB in Gelsenkirchen. In addition to threats it had come to hunting scenes.

Yes, I was afraid. We were entitled to police protection, and I have requested him , explained Raman and added: Two or three weeks patrolled a private protective company in front of my house. Especially when we Eleven days had to stay in quarantine with the club. I did not want to happen to my wife or son.

Meanwhile, Raman plays after a hallucinating season for the RSC Anderlecht. The plan was to find a club in England, Spain or Italy, but that moved. Then my wife wanted to move to Belgium for family reasons, said the Belgian.

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In Anderlecht, Raman seems to feel comfortable again. In the first six inserts for his new club he was involved in three goals. At the team of coach Vincent kompany he has a contract until 2024.