The planning of the FC Schalke 04 reserves is in full swing. S04 II wants to field a good Regionalliga team in the new season as well.
On the sidelines of the spectacular 5:5 draw against Borussia Mönchengladbach II, FC Schalke 04’s second team said goodbye to ten players.
Radomir Novakovic, Julius Schell, Joey Müller, Elias Kurt, Daniel Kyerewaa, Arbnor Aliu, Bogdan Shubin, Luis Klein, Luca Campanile and also top striker Rufat Dadashov – RevierSport reported – are leaving the club.
With goalkeeper Julius Paris, who joins Königsblau from Regionalliga relegated SV Straelen, centre-back Malik Talabidi, who has been without a club, and attacker Paul Pöpperl (TSV Steinbach Haiger II), the Schalke officials have so far introduced three new additions to the Regionalliga reserve team.
RevierSport now knows about addition number four: As RS has learned, Finn Heiserholt is moving from SV Lippstadt 08 to Gelsenkirchen and will strengthen coach Jakob Fimpel’s Schalke team from the new season onwards. In Lippstadt, the midfielder was most recently captain and played 122 matches for SVL in the last four years. Now he returns to Schalke II, from where he had moved to Lippstadt in the summer of 2019.
At Schalke, according to RS information, Heiserholt will not only take one of the few places of the players who are over 23 years old, but also work as a video analyst and at the office.
A nice story on the side: once, when the 26-year-old moved from TSG Sprockhövel to FC Schalke 04 II, he was supposed to start a RevierSport internship. But the offer from FC Schalke crossed those plans.
“That was madness. After all, I’ve been a Schalke player since childhood. I had to turn down RevierSport and signed a two-year contract with FC Schalke’s U23s,” Heiserholt recalled the story from the summer of 2019 even last in the RS interview.
Now, as of 1 July, he will be returning to the club of his heart: FC Schalke 04.
Schalke U23: Balouk stays longer
In addition, there is a contract extension at Schalke II. Offensive talent Marouane Balouk has extended his expiring contract with S04. In the recently concluded season, the 20-year-old scored two goals and made seven assists.
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