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- The Beginning of The End
- Player Turnover
- Pandemic Pandemonium
On February 21, 2016, Schalke announced that Christian Heidel would take over as their new sporting director. This was the man credited with developing managers like Jurgen Klopp and Thomas Tuchel, who combined to help Mainz punch well above their weight from 2007 onwards. Heidel appointed Markus Weinzierl, who had just taken Augsburg to the Europa...
Schalke are one of Germany's biggest talent-production factories, and with that comes an influx of transfer fees when those players are sold. Leroy Sane, Julian Draxler, Thilo Kherer and Manuel Neuer all brought in the best part of £150m between 2011 and 2019, but with great power comes great responsibility. Since Heidel's arrival at the club, Scha...
When new manager David Wagner had them as high as third in December, Schalke were feeling good, but then the world collapsed. Performances on the pitch fell off, but the final nail in the coffin was the COVID-19 outbreak which ravaged football's finances. Even teams who were rolling in cash started to haemorrhage money, but Schalke had no parachute...
- Tom Gott
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May 27, 2021 · Schalke 04 are more than just a football club for the population in Gelsenkirchen, a former miners' town in the Ruhrpott, Germany's most densely populated region in the western parts of the ...
History. The club come from a small mining town and would become one of the clubs that symbolized the rise of the working-class in German football hierarchy. One of the early versions of the club was called Westfalia Schalke and formed in 1904.
Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (German: [ɛf tseː ˈʃalkə nʊl fiːɐ̯] ⓘ), Schalke 04 (German: [ˌʃalkə nʊl ˈfiːɐ̯] ⓘ), or abbreviated as S04 (German: [ˈɛs nʊl fiːɐ̯] ⓘ), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
