Bradley Campbell

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Pablo Torre Finds Out · Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil · 15 May 2025 podcast

And the same thing in the U.S. at the time. If you remember, there was a president, Barack Obama, kind of mocked.

Yeah, mocked then. You know, mocked Senator Mitt Romney for holding, quote, antiquated views on Russia.

I admittedly, yeah, forgot about this entirely. I think it's important when we hear Axel from Schalke and listen to him, you got to even magnify it more because Germany, they're absolutely familiar in dealing with communist leaders and businesses in a way that I would say few, if any other Western democracies are because their country at one point was split East and West.

Yeah, that was the whole wall thing. Yeah. I believe. Culminating with arguably the greatest moment in world history.

Yeah, yeah, but more specifically... David Hasselhoff dancing and singing atop the Berlin Wall while it fell, wearing a black leather jacket, stonewashed denim.

I mean, that's the nature of a Faustian bargain is you don't really know in real time how bad it will get.

It was pure domination. The first year that they did the deal with Gazprom, Schalke went second place in the Bundesliga. But more than that, the next year, they reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

And Gaspar, I'm like, they're loving life at this point too. This is 2011. They ink a deal to get Nord Stream 2 up and running.

Exactly. They get the sequel. But then comes 2014 Pablo. And that is when the story truly follows the tale of Faust.

Ukrainians overthrow their president in the Maidan revolution. Russia responds by annexing Crimea by force.

And during this hostile takeover of Crimea, a lot of Shulka fans are, they're pissed.

For the EU and the US, it was clear that not really. They imposed sanctions on Russian and Ukrainian officials linked to the Crimean takeover. They said it was, quote, undermining the democratic process and institutions in Ukraine.

This is another refrain we are familiar with in America. And so the partnership with Gazprom continues, as Tissa Lohaner from Reuters told me.

Yeah, they make it to the round of 16. But that's when they run into a club who made an even bigger deal with an even more powerful entity.

I feel like there's a lesson here, you know, like no matter how rich you are.

Then the Meat Bear makes dumbass comments about Africans that anger the fan base. Rightfully so, I would add.

They've burned through five different managers and finished the season dead last in the league by a lot.

And because it's COVID, there's no market for players. So they just get deeper and deeper in debt. Then a COVID outbreak hits the meat barons' factories. Of course. PR nightmare. And the meat baron, after 19 years, finally steps down.

So he was fine, but the fans weren't. And when I was in Germany, I talked to some, and they're just like, who are we and what happened to our soul? And I guess even worse was this knowledge that they were still falling. Their club was still getting worse and going down and down, and they hadn't hit rock bottom yet.

So again, that's Axel, who I met up with in Germany, the chairman of Schalke 04. And he was really remembering this time where it wasn't this question of, is Russia going to invade? It was this question of, when are they going to invade Ukraine?

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