Rarely has FC Schalke 04 showed its entire contradictions in one evening as well as on this Holy Saturday. The audience was filled with a wonderful Schalke happiness, “it was right, really cool, one of the hottest games that I was allowed to make here almost magically,” said captain Ron Schallenberg after the game against Hamburger SV.Schalke had devoted devotedly and, despite a more than 90-minute outnumber, fought a 2-2 against the league leader. However, the evening was completed by the inability rooted deeply in this club to simply let positive things work, without immediate turning to the contrary. An hour after the final whistle, the joy was already covered by a memorable appearance by the coach Kees van Wonderen. The deed of what the club tour has been refusing for weeks: he spoke in clear words about his future. “For me, all the signals are there that I am no longer here after the season,” said the Dutch. “Because if you are on the same way, you exchange more and better.” “Please stop” so he confirmed the rumors waving around the club about an upcoming change of coach in summer. And that even though the sports director Youri Mulder had said on Saturday evening about a “Sky” reporter: “Please stop, it always goes, every week about this trainer. Why, I don’t understand.” “Instead, you don’t hear anything”: Schalke coach Kees van Wonderendpaes would be interesting to hear the considerations of the future Schalke sports director Frank Baumann, to inspire this demonstrations, for which this demonstrations have inspired, to hear this. who should lead the club into a better future. “Schalke is an extraordinary club, has a great radiance, has a lot of emotions, a very large force,” said Baumann in an interview with the media department of his new club in early April. Otherwise, Werder Bremen’s long-time head of sports, officially his work in Gelsenkirchen begins in June. “Disappointing and not good” he could even feel the matter with the force on Saturday evening. But also the unbalance that have played an important role in the process of continuous decline for years. When Van Wonderen was asked whether his criticism of the club tour was explicitly directed against the CEO Matthias Tillmann, the coach replied: “For example”, and said that he had wanted backing after the defeat in Regensburg the weekend before. “Instead, you don’t hear anything, and it means behind the scenes that there are doubts. I think that’s disappointing and not good. That is a shame.” Whether Van Wonderen is the right coach for the resurrection project that Tillmann with the new sporting management around Baumann, Mulder and the squad planner Ben Manga can be discussed controversially. It is clear, however, that the club does not give a good picture in this matter either. At Easter Sunday, Baumann met with those responsible and with van Wonderen to calm the situation. “Basically, we expect that we discuss all critical points that someone sees internally,” Tillmann then said about the club’s own channels. “However, such points have no place in public.” One of Baumann’s most important tasks will be to avoid this type of public self -harm in the future, but also economically “behind the plan” Baumann, just like the many other sports chiefs of the recent past, is exposed to constraints that make the urgently needed recovery process difficult. In order to prevent a point deduction, FC Schalke has to reduce its negative equity of almost 100 million euros by five percent year after year. In some years, large loans must also be reduced or repaid. The risky financial maneuvers of the past will slow down the development for many years. Especially since the project of a stadium cooperative on Schalke, which is so successful at FC St. Pauli, is slowly absorbing speed. The finance officer Christina Rühl-Hamers recently confirmed that the club is not only sporty, but also economically “behind the plan”. Explicit in the shop window is therefore the striker Moussa Sylla, who is supposed to bring in a high level of million, and Taylan Bulut, who can change the club thanks to an exit clause. 15 to 20 million euros are to flow into the coffers through player sales. In addition, salaries are saved by not extending the expiring contracts by Tobias Mohr, Marcin Kaminski and Mehmet Aydin. All five players belonged to the team, which in the duel with the HSV made the big Schalke feelings. On Baumann’s soliditis, the Schalke will not build up the existing one again. Rühl-Hamers recently reported in a background discussion about her knowledge from the recent second division seasons: In many cases, teams have risen whose personnel costs did not indicate a place in the league directly. Heidenheim, Darmstadt or Kiel, for example. The second division success concept is not to be able to pay the best salaries and the highest transfer sums, but in the development of teams that could grow at a healthy pace. Schalke, however, staggered from upheaval to upheaval. With Timo Becker von Holstein Kiel, a heart of the heart was signed for the coming year, and the club is no longer in the risk of relegation. In addition, a sports director has been found with Baumann who exudes a solidity that the club can use well. The goal that the new board of directors has proclaimed sounds almost utopian, but it contains the clarity that the club lacks in many other places: “Schalke again makes a permanent and successful first division team.”
