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FC Schalke 04 have been last since matchday eight! Another low point for the real blues. The once proud Pott Club is in free fall.
The 0: 2 against Wolfsburg was the 24th game without a consecutive win. There is currently no prospect of improvement.
Fear of the first decline since 1988 is growing among fans and around 600 employees. The problems are complex and cannot be related to individual people.
SPORT1 analyzes the free fall of the former permanent guest of the European Cup and relentlessly names the works.
The team:
“The team is alive,” said Omar Mascarell before the game against Wolfsburg. SPORT1 still said. But that looked very different on the weekend. Without struggle, without passion, without morality. Lack of attitude was often accompanied by disability.
Players seem insecure, sometimes even fearful. Mark Uth gave an open and honest insight into his soul world: “I’m so served and angry right now. I could go to the locker room and just cry. We don’t get into a duel, we don’t even get a yellow card. You get the feeling that we are always two men down. I wonder how we want to win such a match! “
Uth (at least two goals this Bundesliga season) is currently one of the few players leading the way and sometimes tackling uncomfortable things internally. When he took office, coach Manuel Baum made it clear that Uth, Mascarell and Salif Sané are among its most important leaders. Bitter: The latter will be out for the next few weeks due to knee problems.
Veterans Benjamin Stambouli and Bastian Oczipka, with whom the club extended its contracts, are going down smoothly with the rest of the players.
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Characteristic: Amine Harit is a symbol of the Schalke crisis. Since the contract extension in December 2019, nothing has worked with the dribble artist. At Wolfsburg, he was replaced after his 38-minute disaster appearance and paid no attention to Baum. Schneider resigned at the Ruhr News a: “How he left the field after being substituted is not acceptable. Of course, we will talk to him about that.”
Schalke now need professionals to lead the way. Problem: The team was not formed for the battle for relegation. “But we have to do it,” Uth said when asked if the team can fight for relegation. “We are right in the middle instead of there.”
Coach:
Manuel Baum has been Schalke’s coach for seven weeks, until now he only wanted to win the DFB Cup against fourth division Schweinfurt (4-1). There were three draws in six games in the league. Goal difference: 4:13. If he initially exuded great confidence (“Let me do it, I know what I’m doing”), his head also gradually lowered. Baum, tactically actually an excellent coach, sometimes seems insecure and lost.
The 41-year-old is partly responsible for the 2-0 draw at Wolfsburg. He initially sent a string of three onto the grass with Stambouli in place of Ozan Kabak in center, a wrong decision. “We didn’t put anything on the plate with or against the ball until 2-0,” he complained. Only after the system became a back four did the team gain more access.
After SPORT1– The information is available internally for the tree but not (yet) available. Sports director Jochen Schneider and the eleven-member supervisory board support the soccer teacher.
The management level:
There is a great crisis at the management level. The relationship between sports director Jochen Schneider and manager Michael Reschke is totally hypothermic. You should only force both of them to talk to each other. It is said in the industry that Schalke’s sporting leadership “would no longer speak with one voice.”
The duo have been working together in Schalke since June 2019. In three transfer periods (and certainly also under the legacy of the predecessors and the financial situation) they could not muster a powerful force. Reschke’s early release (contract until 2022) has been debated internally for a long time.
The office:
The atmosphere in the office is very sad. Some of the 600 employees fear losing their job due to the precarious economic situation (240 million euros in liabilities). Background: The board is planning a restructuring.
Alexander Jobst (Marketing, Sales, Organization), who is considered an uncompromising, commented on the current changes in the organizational structure: “The following applies to all companies in all sectors: standing still means going backwards. What would be the consequence? Continue, why always like this? ”
And: “Of course, we have had detailed discussions with all employees, whose tasks will change due to changes in the content of the organization. It is also clear that not all employees are winners of a structural change.”
The fans:
The ridicule of his own fans increases week by week. Many endure the series of bankruptcies of their heart club only with a black humor. Many would even view a decline as a new beginning of relief.
There is also the explosive issue of outsourcing. Divide the fan scene. Works in the Waz: “I can understand very well that you (subcontracting; Note D. Red.) polarized. Schalke 04 has reached its limits in its current structure. If sporting success does not materialize in several years, we have to deal with this issue.
