Rumors of a cracked atmosphere in the Schalke 04 dressing room have recently increased. Tobias Mohr countered this and emphasized the team spirit of everyone involved.
In the last week or two, we have read about several topics here and there that are supposed to cause some displeasure in the Schalke dressing room. Above all, it should have been about the recent short deployment times of leading players and those players who were still several times in the starting XI at the beginning of the season.
There was also talk of a small dispute between Frank Kramer and Rodrigo Zalazar. The coach accused him of not being fit enough for his intended role as a regular. The offensive player himself denied via social media that he left such a conversation angry. The topic of Zalazar’s alleged lack of fitness is still real, as the WAZ reported these days.
According to Tobias Mohr, the bad mood that is sometimes assumed does not exist within the team or at least in parts of the team.
“We are still close together and have a lot of fun in the dressing room,” he told WAZ. The competition does not cause anger and unrest, according to the left winger. Instead, he emphasized the communal approach: “As a group, we handle it very well. Nobody takes it personally. We push and motivate each other.”
The most recent rumors talked about Danny Latza and Alex Kral. The “honorary captain”, as the picture titled him last week due to his lack of missions, is said to have promised himself significantly more minutes. Kral, on the other hand, didn’t cope so well that he suddenly slipped behind Florian Flick and thus onto the bench after starting eleven appearances at the beginning of the season.
Topics that, according to Mohr, either do not exist in the form, or are cooked much hotter than eaten.
Meanwhile, he himself is completely satisfied with the role he has been able to play so far. “If someone had told me beforehand that you would play five of the seven games, I would have signed it immediately,” he said happily. It doesn’t matter to him whether he should act defensively or offensively on his left side.
This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as Mohr denied the bad atmosphere in the Schalke dressing room.
