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Evidently Sport Bild is reporting that Bentaleb may refuse to sign with Shalke in the summer due to the way their supporters treated him when he first arrived. That would put him back at Spurs until we figured out what to do with him.
I personally still rate him and would love him back in the fold, but that seems extremely unlikely unless something has transpired to convince Poch to give him another chance. Either way we would probably benefit as we'd likely be able to sell him on the open market for more than the €19m option to buy that Shalke have.
We'd be lucky to get €19m from anyone else. Some one posted a link with the Schalke fans thoughts on him and most were Meh about him... I think Poch is the type of manager that won't want him back in the club. His actions seemed to make it clear Bentaleb wasn't wanted.