Storm talent instead of money: This is how Schalke should react to the rumble failure

For Sebastian Polter, the current season is most likely over. Schalke 04 should not make the mistake of investing the already very tight money in a new striker – the other construction sites are too big. Instead, Keke Topp should be the focus. A comment.

Schalke has not been training a whole week in the training camp in Belek, since there are already two worse knee injuries. While Justin Heekeren had already been hit a few days ago, Sebastian Polter had to be substituted on Saturday afternoon in the friendly against FC Zurich.

In the meantime, the club has confirmed that it is most likely an injury to the cruciate ligament. In short: Polter will no longer appear for the Knappen this season ().

Low budget should not be touched – search for reinforcement already tough enough

Accordingly, the question of how the club should react to this long-term failure comes into focus. After all, we are in the middle of the winter transfer window. Looking for a storm replacement would be an obvious option – but at the same time the wrong one.

The Gelsenkirchener already have very little money available to tackle other, even more important construction sites. Still no fast winger has been brought in, although Thomas Reis clearly gave the highest priority to such a personality. Tim Skarke is supposed to come, but meanwhile switching to an alternative seems to be unavoidable.

The coach had already noted that he would like to get more reinforcements for the team. So it takes every single euro to tackle the identified construction sites.

External replacement Polter would be too risky – Schalke squints on Topp

A new striker to replace Polter would therefore neither make sense nor be urgently necessary. Instead, Keke Topp should now become the central theme.

The 18-year-old is also a center forward and has already proven this season that he can fall back on very good form. In the S04 U19s he has scored a whopping 15 goals in 14 appearances so far and directly prepared another goal. He also scored several times with the U19 national team.

Now it’s time for him to be raised to the pros. Of course, this means that Norbert Elgert’s team will lose the most important player, but of course the professional team has priority. Topp is quite similar to Polter in terms of position and size, so he could take on his duties relatively well.

Team manager Gerald Asamoah said that this step will probably also be taken sky already indicated: “We will now with Norbert [Elgert] talk and hope that we get a player from the U19. Keke Topp has done very, very well so far – that we might pull him up.”

In this way, a youth player gets the chance to at least supplement the squad, if not even get one or the other professional assignment. At the same time, the already very small budget that is planned for the loans will not be affected either.

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