Difficult Journey: after the game to face Schalke fans – and be insulted
Recently, Clemens Tonnies has compared the FC Schalke 04 with a “wellness oasis”. The Supervisory Board Chairman was referring to the working conditions of professional football players and wanted to give his notice to understand that he was dissatisfied with the income that achieve the pampered, coddled sometimes players. Participation in the Europa League was really not what team directors, supervisors and had sat down together to the target.
In this respect, the image of the oasis had a critical background. It will done everything possible to make the players as comfortable as possible, Tonnies said, “but that may not result in that some lay in a hammock”. But if they played in the second half mostly. And the oasis mutated to a place is on the shooting starts. In Gelsenkirchen Horst Heldt turmoil also noted that the impacts to come closer.
So the manager took a particularly robust headgear from the props in order to protect themselves from attacks: “We now need to put on the helmet and go over there,” he said before the home match against SC Paderborn, the and the Royal Blues with Ah Barney and decided by an own goal in the penultimate minute more than happy for themselves. He was right. Schalke have it with her fans long playful, which was more than clear after the final whistle against Paderborn.
Meanwhile Heldt feels well from the direction of his patron Tonnies headwind. Tonnies had big plans with the manager and praised its work at every opportunity. But now the head of the supervisory board is a little on distance to his protégé. “I do not put it in question, but I also do not speak it holy,” Tonnies said the “Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung”.
Absent: Manager Horst Heldt endures in the stands silently to displeasure of fans Photogallery
It’s too much went wrong this season, as the supreme controller, who like meddling, Heldt could take out of the firing line completely. At the base and in the media, the work of the manager is increasingly viewed critically, although Schalke has reached three times in succession in the first knockout round of the Champions League. Heldts balance sheet is not particularly good. Also in filling the post coach he had little luck.
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The current coach Roberto Di Matteo is the fourth in four years. During this period has only Ralf Rangnick, who announced for health reasons, the impression of being able to convey a clear concept and a game idea. Under Di Matteo, who replaced in October Jens Keller, it went so steeply downhill, saw that even Heldt “rock bottom” achieved. So the manager tried this week to gain respect and intimidate the team.
He put two players freely, of which he had originally promised a lot: the eccentric midfield star Kevin-Prince Boateng, who was provided as a leader, and former national player Sidney Sam, who has arrived never really at Schalke. In both cases Heldt justified the expulsion order that is lacking on the basis of trust that is necessary for a fruitful cooperation. For this he suspended – due to alleged lack of loyalty – Marco Höger, a hard-working footballer who called Boateng “brother”
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Here is resorted, was the message from the boardroom. Tonnies took on benevolently, but had to complain about something. “I would rather I did it a lot,” he said. Also not very flattering for Heldt appears this detail that brought Tonnies to the public. “I have written a small SMS Horst Heldt. In it, I have written to him what I would do, “he said and did in the trailer as if it would have been a rather without warranty. “It was not my recommendation. I said: You’re the boss. Meet your decision! “Heldt is more than ever as a boss there to” Big Boss “about himself, whose” advice “is to be interpreted in case of doubt as transfer.
Heldt no longer feel only the pressure of the base, which distrusts him for some time, but is forced to also Tonnies to win over to profile. So he put a precautionary measure before the competencies from the event that the discussions about the trainer should come to a head, meanwhile, directed the team plays an extremely disappointing second half. Tonnies had announced the club will hold on to Di Matteo. That may be also Heldts intention. Nevertheless, he considers it necessary to clarify who is here (formal) has the final word: “Such a guarantee may Clemens Tonnies basically not exist, because he does not decide it.”
One day, the Supervisory Board is at the top but with Tonnies decide whether and for how long can stay Heldt. The manager speaks these days a lot of responsibility and change and shows understanding for the attitude of the fans. A long time he has so wash through rough terrain – more controlled by the self-preservation instinct than of good ideas. That will not be enough in the long run. If Heldt should keep at FC Schalke, not just the team needs to improve.
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