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Long, long dry spell
Wagner is only the fourth coach in the 58th Bundesliga season after Rinus Michels (Cologne 1983), Morten Olsen (Cologne 1995) and Dieter Hecking (Hannover 2009), who was sacked after matchday two. Wagner, who was a professional at Schalke from 1995 to 1997, still had a contract until 2022. Never in the history of the Bundesliga has a team started worse than Schalke with zero points and 1:11 goals in two games.
In mid-January in Gelsenkirchen, they cheered on the coach who had been hired in the summer. After beating Gladbach 2-0 at the start of the second half of the season, Schalke were fifth, tied on points with archrival Dortmund and three points behind second-placed Bayern. Wagner seemed to have understood and revived Schalke. Schalke have not won a match since. After the 0: 8 start at Bayern Munich, Schneider had already moved away from Wagner and had no longer given a job guarantee. Immediately after 1: 3 against Bremen with an equally sobering performance, the sporting director did not want to say anything. Wagner had to be clear, at the latest, what awaited him.
A successor for the 48-year-old has yet to be named. The candidates are former Mainz Sandro Schwarz, former Augsburg Manuel Baum, former Stuttgart Alexander Zorniger and Schalke player icon Marc Wilmots.
