FC Schalke 04 restructuring
Schalke is sending the next club legend out the door
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An image that was often seen at Schalke: pure disillusionment. Here in the faces of assistant coach Mike Büskens (r.) and defender Henning Matriciani
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After Gerlad Asamoah, another icon has to leave FC Schalke 04. And it won’t stay that way: changes are also imminent among the players.
As it rebuilds for the future, FC Schalke 04 has parted ways with another club legend. After Gerald Asamoah, Mike Büskens also has no future in Gelsenkirchen, as the second division club announced on Wednesday. The crowd favorite’s contract expired at the end of this season and will not be renewed.
“Buyo has celebrated great successes with S04 over many years as a player and coach, most recently as coach of the 2021/2022 promotion team, and has successfully accompanied talents on their way to the pros. We are very grateful to him for the work he has done in the various roles,” said Schalke’s CEO Matthias Tillmann. The end of the collaboration is part of “fundamental changes in the professional performance center,” according to the club’s statement. In addition to Büskens, goalkeeping coach Simon Henzler and several unnamed employees must also go.
“In order to achieve our long-term goals, especially the return to the Bundesliga, we need profound changes in order to be able to provide the necessary impetus, we are convinced of that,” said Tillmann. “We did this in the sporting management, for example, by signing Ben Manga, and we are now continuing this path at the other levels of the licensing area.”
Manga will be working at Schalke as director of squad planning, scouting and the youth department. Before the separation from Büskens, the end of the collaboration with club icon Asamoah had already been announced.
“Sweep the Schalke dressing room neatly”
One thing that cannot be blamed on Schalke’s management is that they are inactive. Shortly after the end of the disappointing season (tenth place), a number of decisions have already been made. The expiring contracts of Danny Latza (34), Cédric Brunner (30), Thomas Ouwejan (27) and Blendi Idrizi (26) will not be renewed. And according to a report in SPORT BILD, the bosses around sports director Marc Wilmots and squad planner Manga are not stopping at players with longer contracts. Timo Baumgartl (28) and Dominick Drexler (33), both relegated to the U23s by coach Karel Geraerts, are to leave.
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Finally, according to the report, the Schalke veteran was called to Wilmots’ office: Ralf Fährmann (35/contract until 2025). The goalkeeper, who came to the Revier club at the age of 14, was said to have been told very clearly what the club was planning to do with him – namely not at all. Wilmots is said to have told him that he would no longer be in the professional squad next season and would instead be deported to the U23 if he did not leave S04 in the summer. According to SPORT BILD, the goalkeeper then broke off the conversation – and referred to his agent.
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Fährmann is the top earner in the squad and earns more than twice as much as most of his colleagues: according to the paper, over 1.5 million euros per year. There is now a risk of an inglorious separation. Further cases of hardship are anything but impossible; the Schalke dressing room should be “cleanly swept through,” as SPORT BILD wrote.
The bosses have also decided internally: Max Meyer (28), most recently at FC Luzern (Switzerland), will not return to Schalke. Christian Conteh (24/Osnabrück), who was also recently heavily traded as an entry, will also not receive a contract with S04. The bosses think both players are not strong enough.
