Trafalgar
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Champions League: Schalke, relegation and oblivion
Champions League: Schalke, relegation and oblivion
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I just read that earlier. Let that be a warning to anyone who thinks we should try to live beyond our means or as some say, speculate to accumulate, which basically means gambling with the clubs finances.Champions League: Schalke, relegation and oblivion
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A massive club with 160k members (more than Real Madrid the article says)
Seems their player trading model was akin to ours and they lost huge talent for nothing. However, they also spent big on players who didn't make it. Losing Gazprom as a sponsor after the invasion of Ukraine must have hurt them also.
What sort of tv deal does the Bundesliga have (just read €1.1b per season v £6.7m v England £1.7b) - Germany has a larger population than England but German football seems to have gone off the boil while English football has grown - I assume that's down to the 50+1 rule where there isn't the same foreign investors involved.
Always had a soft spot for Schalke given the blue shirt probably.
Yes, was reading that myself and it's fair to say we know the feeling all to well.I love German football, I think they're entitled to own "Football's coming home", given the 50+1 set-up and the real influence the fans exercise, so I hope Schalke survive to be playing Hamburg next season (yes, I've given up on promotion).
I have to say though, the following sentiment expressed in the article applies just as much to us, and I'd expect also to most fans around the world:
“There is a saying, ‘Schalke will never disappear’. Even if the whole club has to be set up again, the fans will do it. The entity called Schalke is way beyond any person; it lives in the hearts of so many.”
Yes, was reading that myself and it's fair to say we know the feeling all to well.
I and many others know that feeling and it's frightening the amount of big, traditional clubs that are getting into bad situations these days. For me, I see Rangers as a large community club, my friends through the years have all been Rangers fans. Some of them are gone now and I live with the many great memories of them, plenty involving Rangers. Clubs should not be the plaything of rich people. Many of the friends I've made from Ulster is basically through Rangers. Long may it continue. Through the good times and the bad.
Hamburg and Schalke need to get sorted and back to the top league where they belong. Any word on how Kaiserslautern are doing these days?
Thanks mate.They got out the stuck at the weekend winning at Kiel, I think they'll stay up. Wiesbaden second bottom and Hansa third bottom is my fancy. There are many more traditional Clubs with brilliant support as well as those you mention out of the Bundesliga - Hansa, Dynamo Dresden, 1860.
Thanks mate.