This season at Schalke makes no longer and bring the area club in hardships. The club must decide whether he is coach Tedesco and Manager of Heidelberg.

comment by Philipp Selldorf

This European Cup night in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, its drama and its consequences were the well-known Latin aphorisms. To their understanding, it is to be a classical scholar, it is enough to sound Asterix-knowledge. To kick-off the from the cartoon traditional greeting of the gladiators recorded the location of the FC Schalke 04: “Morituri te salutant” – the moribund salute you. Because what else than the sporting death of Schalke encounter with Manchester City had expected? Until then, the electronic referee entered the scene and Schalke temporarily tie helped.

“Veni, video, vici” came, took the Times with Caesars modified word (I, I saw, I conquered) in the course of the game. At the end, but the Phrase remains have mistaken, with the generations of commentators, the spirit of wealth. “Quo vadis, Schalke?” Go with you, Schalke. Or: Where will it all end?

reasons for criticism of the Manager and coach there are a few

The Champions League season, so much is suggested, is soon to be over for the Squires. Now you have to win at City “stop 2:0”, declared the defender Daniel Caligiuri after the game, he has but also adds the same: “No, fun aside”, then slogans follow that up on Saturday against Mainz in the same spirit of the Lord had, with his Team brought Manchester City to the brink of defeat.

The big Schalke questions do not emerge but from the disappointment of Wednesday night in a last-Minute (self) is blighted Sensation, but from the disappointment of the big picture. The encounter with the City has contributed a Chapter. This season makes no Schalke glad, and the football, Schalke in the everyday life of the League plays, is also exhilarating. Now the club and its always challenging, increasingly aggressive environment with a renewed focus on the principle issues: Whether or not you want to those who trust, have set the course in the failure of the season: Manager Christian Heidel and coach Domenico Tedesco? Or the club leadership is strong and independent enough to give the continuity of the primacy and the failure to endure, for a while at least?

reasons for criticism of the Manager and coach there are a few, but where the standard sequence of radical solutions – the Fires of self-accelerating the sporty, responsible, has an example of the Hamburger SV.