Sports director Schalke Christian Heidel believes that the Ukrainian Yevgeny Konoplyanka could perform much better.

Linnet is not in better relations with the leadership of Schalke after publicly criticized the former head coach Marcus Weinzirl.

"If Schalke takes 10th place, then we can conclude that the team is poorly or incorrectly formed. Naturally, not every player showed himself the way we expected, "Heidel began..

"Such an experienced player as the Linnet was to create more on the field than before the television camera. And he knows this ".

"Almost all the newcomers merged into the composition or were included in the main cage. But we also had 8 players who were out of action for several months. Despite this, the team had to show a better result than the 10th place ".

Last season Konoplyanka held for Schalke 17 matches in the Bundesliga (601 minutes), scored 1 goal and gave 1 assistant.