football clubs get into their story again and again to points where the course for the future, as the FC Schalke 04 these days. With chief financial officer Peter Peters and the Chairman of the Supervisory Board Clemens Tönnies, have adopted the two great constants of the last 20 years. The big effort to a Champions League club inflated area the club needs to shrink at almost all levels, at least in the next two, three years it’s going to be an economic consolidation, and a stabilization somewhere in the midfield of the Bundesliga.

The squad will be much, much cheaper because of Schalke lived beyond their means, as a consolation, a new identity was good, the back to the buddy – and the grafters club fits. Tönnies’ autocratic and with a good Dose of hubris spiced Regime to yield to a corporate culture of “economic reason” and of “transparency”, as Director Alexander Jobst said.

Without a doubt, this historical moment has the Potential to be eventually, to the birth of a new Chelsea Era explained. As the financial crisis at BVB at the beginning of the Millennium the way for the sweet time with Jürgen Klopp paved. However, the views of other deposed tradition of the clubs, where large figures are to be born after years of bad work is worth it. Where improvement was praised, but not entered. At HSV, the VfB Stuttgart, 1. FC Köln or even when 1. FC Kaiserslautern have fruit phases of the alleged self-renewal, at best, short. The circle of this club Schalke 04 is now part of – at least for the time being.