Schalke plunged into financial problems in 2020 blamed on the coronavirus pandemic and years of heavy spending without enough Champions League revenue to cover the costs
German football clubs resisted last-minute splurges on players with Leipzig’s signing of Ilaix Moriba from Barcelona the most eye-catching move on the last day of the summer transfer window.
The Germany defender was signed from Arsenal in January with a short-term contract after failing to get game time in the Premier League.
Four more Schalke players have been ordered to isolate as close contacts, further weakening a squad already diminished by injuries.
Schalke said on Tuesday both infections to date involved players, who haven't been named.
Schalke said a first round of PCR tests on Monday returned the two positive results for COVID-19. Both individuals are in quarantine and neither is showing any symptoms.
Schalke was Bundesliga runner-up in 2018, when it reached the semifinals of the German Cup. It is a seven-time German champion and five-time German Cup champion. It won its last cup final in 2011.
The Gelsenkirchen-based club is last in the league and nine points from safety with 11 rounds remaining. Gross was fired a day after a 5-1 loss at Stuttgart, leaving Schalke looking for its fifth coach of a turbulent season.
Schalke is last in the Bundesliga standings with four points from 12 games and trying desperately to end its club-record 28-game run without a win in the league.
McKennie was seen wearing an armband with the message 'Justice for George' during Schalke's Bundesliga match against Werder Bremen on Saturday.
Borussia Dortmund defeated Schalke 4-0 in the first Ruhr derby to be played in an empty stadium.
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Hertha Berlin player Jordan Torunarigha was subjected to racist abuse during a German Cup game against Schalke.
Mats Hummels and Robert Lewandowski set Bayern back on track toward a record-extending seventh straight title.
With a 7-0 thrashing of Schalke on Tuesday that completed a 10-2 aggregate victory, Manchester City eased into the last eight of Champions League.
Raheem Sterling scored in the 90th to earn 10-man City a 3-2 win in the first leg of its last-16 match in Gelsenkirchen.
Bayern took advantage of Dortmund's second successive league slip-up by beating Schalke 3-1 in the late game, lifting the six-time defending champion back to second place.
While the Colombian midfielder made his first league start for Bayern, American teenager Weston McKennie did likewise for the home team.
Juventus wanted a central defender after Leonardo Bonucci's departure to AC Milan. Howedes, who also can play as a left-back or a right-back, will be Juventus' fifth central defence option.
Madrid: Cristiano Ronaldo rescued Real Madrid in the Champions League on Tuesday with two goals in a pulsating 4-3 defeat to Schalke that saw the holders squeeze through to the quarterfinals with a 5-4 victory
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