Schalke 04: In addition to Roberto Di Matteo is also Horst Heldt Problem – SPIEGEL ONLINE

In fact, today’s Whit Monday should be a beautiful opportunity to forget the grudges of a completely wayward Bundesliga season.

The A-youth of the area clubs meet in the evening in the final of the German Cup on 1899 Hoffenheim, Schalke few thousand fans are expected in Wattenscheider Lohrheidestadion. Now the club management has accomplished the feat to contaminate even this soiree of talents with the sense of crisis surrounding the professional team.

On Sunday sat supervisory board chairman Clemens Tonnies his committee colleagues thereof that Schalke and coach Roberto Di Matteo could be separated, and of course it was not long until the news came out via the media. The coach question now lies like a dark shadow over the A-youth final.

So unhappy was the time of the decision and so unprofessional it was communicated, content is understandable.

The team has not evolved little in the almost eight months under Di Matteo, she missed the sports goal of qualifying for the Champions League. And in the last few weeks she has a horrible bloodless, listless and uninspired football played while di Matteo appeared even more energy and more perplexed. Obviously, sporting director Horst Heldt the Italians, whose reputation was mainly in having won in 2012 as interim coach with Chelsea the Champions League, overrated.

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The Spekulationsspielchen succession is thus opened, are named as Huub Stevens, Mike Büskens, Christian Streich, Markus Gisdol, Jürgen Klopp discussed. Should think

Seriously Heldt about Sascha Lewandowski who wants to return to the Bundesliga, over Augsburg Markus Weinzierl, the Belgian coach Marc Wilmots and Armin Veh, the old pal of Sports Director. Open is whether Heldt at all must have a say. “. After such a season, no one can be satisfied There is not one thing that needs to be improved, there are many things,” striker Klaas Jan Huntelaar had-after the 0: 2 defeat in Hamburg said last Saturday that as much is like: to blame solely the coach, would be wrong

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Was it right to separate himself from Roberto Di Matteo?

So it’s quite possible that club boss Tonnies is searching also for a new sporting director , For this position, Andreas Rettig would offer to who is looking for new challenges after joining the German Football League. For urgent Schalke 04 needed a sporty line, which can install a clear footballing concept. Really thought is merely an attempt to position Schalke as Kumpel- and Malocherklub. But what does that mean for football? The trainer and manager candidates will carefully consider whether they want to engage in the FC Schalke.

Because arises in important moments again and again the impression that the actual main decision was chairman of the board Tonnies who is neither a football expert is still a boss, which characterizes a modern corporate culture.

Last showed that when Kevin-Prince Boateng and Sidney Sam isolated and Marco Höger were temporarily suspended. “I have written a small SMS Horst Heldt. In it, I have written to him what I would do,” Tonnies told at that time in a much-publicized television interview. Then there was “given a response that I approve, but it was not my recommendation, I said. ‘You’re the boss Meet your decision.’”

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About such important processes to communicate via SMS, testifies to a plentiful strange corporate culture. Which ambitious player who coaches which sports director wants to work for a club where the chairman of the board Spielersuspendierungen recommended by SMS, which are then also put into practice? To believe that the sanctions against individuals would shake up the rest of the team and push them to greater commitment, turned out to be also a fatal miscalculation.

Schalke 04 may again be slightly better when a new coach Di Matteo replaced. But a well-managed, reputable soccer company, in which all workers can enjoy a fruitful working basis, a new head coach will hardly be able to conjure. The competitors from Mönchengladbach, Dortmund, Leverkusen and Wolfsburg are not only enteilt sporty. They have long since also structures that are clearly superior to the strange Schalke construct.