Timo Becker

Central Defender - Schalke 04
5 Aug 2028
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98 Edition

The Schalke 04 Gazette

12 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market12 Jun 2028

Schalke 04 spend $31.0M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $31.0M has been paid because Marc Guiu is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Market12 Jun 2028

Schalke 04 spend $3.3M to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $3.3M has been paid because Luca Sirch is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Luca Sirch gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Luca Sirch has just signed for Schalke 04, and for once the answer mattered.

Market12 Jun 2028

Timo Becker puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Schalke 04, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Schalke 04 rebuffed over Fabian Nürnberger

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. SV Elversberg have kept their man, and Schalke 04 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

Michael Verrips due for a Schalke 04 medical

Everything agreed with Greuther Fürth, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Market12 Jun 2028

Predrag Rajković wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Schalke 04 hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Transfer targets12 Jun 2028

No deal for Raphael Obermair at that price

Schalke 04 offered $1.1M; Hannover 96 said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Squad12 Jun 2028

Tempers go at Schalke 04

Tyrell Malacia was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Schalke 04 training over how hard people work
  • The terraces The town asked, and Schalke 04 paid $31.0M
  • Squad A quiet fortnight at Schalke 04
Back issues
35 Edition

The Schalke 04 Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Mar 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Léiner Escalante

141 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Schalke 04 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match29 Mar 2027

Nobody above Schalke 04

First, on 49 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Léiner Escalante: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Schalke 04 have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Tempers go at Schalke 04

Robin Gosens was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Jakob Sachse signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jakob Sachse and Schalke 04 agree another 5 years.

Squad29 Mar 2027

Real improvement from Tidiane Touré at Schalke 04

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Tidiane Touré is 22, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market29 Mar 2027

Talks stall between Schalke 04 and Cyriaque Irié

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

Jakob Sachse asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout29 Mar 2027

The manager makes an example of Timo Becker

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief