Schalke 04 has to find a new chairman. Clemens Tönnies stepped down as the top boss on Tuesday after nineteen years because of the club’s dramatic sporting results in the Bundesliga last season.
Tönnies became chairman of Schalke in 2001. He still led ‘Die Königsblauen’ to success in his early years, including five second places in the Bundesliga and three times the overall victory in the DFB-Pokal.
Schalke has, however, increasingly declined in recent years, with the low point last season. The team had a good start to the vintage and initially competed for the top places in the Bundesliga, but around the winter it went downhill.
The seven-time national champion did not win once in the last sixteen league games (six draws and ten defeats) and thus put down the worst series in club history.
Schalke disappointingly finished twelfth, but has no intention of firing trainer David Wagner. Sporting director Jochen Schneider said last week that the club is “100 percent” behind the German.
Tönnies was under attack not only for Schalke’s performance, but also because of a massive coronavirus outbreak recently at his meat factory in Rheda-Wiedenbrück. More than 1,500 of the 6,000 employees were found to be infected.
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