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"How about five more goals before the end of the season?" - Mark Uth (l.) has promised to give his all for Julian Nagelsmann (r.) before swapping Hoffenehim for Schalke at the end of the campaign. - © © imago
"How about five more goals before the end of the season?" - Mark Uth (l.) has promised to give his all for Julian Nagelsmann (r.) before swapping Hoffenehim for Schalke at the end of the campaign. - © © imago

“Julian Nagelsmann is the best coach I’ve ever had!” - Mark Uth

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Mark Uth has already played for four clubs in two countries at the age of 26, with a fifth on the horizon when he completes his move from Hoffenheim to Schalke next summer, but the forward’s in no doubt that Julian Nagelsmann is the greatest tactical mind he has trained under.

“Tactically, he’s the best coach I’ve ever had,” Uth said in an exclusive interview with bundesliga.com. “Julian has clear ideas and he knows exactly how to play against every opponent. I’ve never experienced anything like this before, with any coach. He’s had a huge part in my development. He’s made me much better.”

Watch: Mark Uth's Top 5 goals!

Uth’s improvement hasn’t gone unnoticed by Schalke, and he will swap the Wirsol Rhein-Neckar-Arena for the Veltins Arena in June. The left-footed forward has every intention of adding to his 13 goals and two assists in all competitions for Nagelsmann’s side before he leaves, though.

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“I’m not worried about [getting distracted],” he continued. “From the first minute that I knew I’d be transferring to Schalke I emphasised that I’d give everything for Hoffenheim until the very end. I want to do as well as possible and achieve all we can as a team.”

In Sandro Wagner, Niklas Süle, Sebastian Rudy and Serge Gnabry, Uth has a number of teammates past and present in contention for Joachim Löw’s Germany squad for the FIFA 2018 World Cup in Russia this summer – which will be announced on 15 May - but he’s not convinced he will join them despite his stellar form.