Gladbach: Matthias Ginter rejected change to FC Schalke 04

Before Matthias Winter moved to BVB in the summer of 2014, he also had an offer of FC Schalke 04. But the national player of Borussia Mönchengladbach decided against a signature in Gelsenkirchen.

In the second half of the Bundesliga season 2011/12, the star of Matthias Winter went to SC Freiburg. In his homeland, the then 18-year-old quickly developed into the regular player. Already a year later he was hardly an integral part of the Team of the Brasher. The teenager quickly woke up the interest of larger clubs. Thus, among other things, the FC Schalke knocked on Winter.

There were contact with FC Schalke 04 in 2013. At that time I played in Freiburg, Winter betrayed on the edge of the presentation of the new book of Schalke icon Ingo Anderbrugge. In the end, he decided against a change to Gelsenkirchen, because he wanted to play another year in Freiburg, explained the national player.

The end of history is known: Winter laced in 2013/14 another year for the Freiburgs club The shoes, matured there for a national player and then switched to a transfer fee of ten million euros to BVB. After three years in Dortmund, he moved further to Borussia Mönchengladbach, where he developed into one of the best defenders in Germany.

How long will Winter remain in Playback?

How long his journey takes the foal still, is in the stars. Winters contract runs 2022, to an extension it will probably not come. The FC Bayern should have a look at him, but not as a desired, but rather as a B solution, if the obligation of Antonio Rudder should burst.

Meanwhile, the Gladbacher still hopes the hope that Winter is still extending his contract. The Freiburg chief Max Ebert revealed in a conversation with Playback Live. At the same time, Ebert also left the door open for a farewell of the national player and said about a possible winter change: I can not exclude anything in times of Corona.