Bradley Campbell
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first heard May 2025
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Pablo Torre Finds Out · Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil · 15 May 2025
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So some fans already had. They actually put duct tape across the Gazprom on the jerseys so you couldn't see it, covering up that logo. But the board that they had elected continued to kind of wait.
And it's like you're trying to protect this thing that you love. And it's like, you know, it's not just simply just cutting ties to make a statement.
So they were working on it, Pablo, 24-7, talking to Gazprom's representatives, who was actually, they were open to it because Nord Stream 2, that wasn't going to happen anytime soon. So getting out of contracts was the priority, but you know that that takes time, which is something they didn't have.
The thing that they really needed was a new source of money.
But it's that all-hands concept again. You know, just the whole community rallying together to step up. But, you know, while this is happening, I want to be like, oh, it's all warm and lovely. The Russian troops are still there.
But it's a lot slower of a death, which is in some ways a little bit crueler. You know, without a massive sponsor in the club in disarray, they drop again back to the second division, and they risk an even further drop to the third division.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, they're struggling each week just to survive. And for fans, it's just pure psychological torture. They're watching this team just absolutely stink on the field. It's so bad. Worse than that, Pablo, is that there's a rule that if you're in the third division, you have to be financially stable. Schalke wasn't stable.
So if the worst comes to worst, we're actually going to be forced to drop down to the amateur level. And so I'm not even being hyperbolic when I say like each week was facing annihilation.
They needed to center themselves in a way and just kind of overcome these massive mistakes. And again, they had so much debt, so they had to be smart about it. And, you know, they put out a call, I guess, or, you know, cast nets to try and find which Schalke 04 member anywhere in the world could help them out. And who did they end up finding? Let's go, let's go. How's it going? Good. Yeah?
Yeah, good. Game day? Game day, yeah. Matthias Tillmann, and he's been a fan of Schalke since he was five years old, and bought his first jersey, which is a right of any, you know, upstanding Schalke member, nearly three decades ago.
So he moved back to Germany and started doing the Lord's work, man. Like, I don't know if you've seen a recent photo of Daryl Morey.
I mean, running a losing franchise is just absolutely brutal.
It is truly a massive amount of work.
That's what it takes, yeah.
But it's a different sort of pact.
So the love is genuine, but let's get real. Dude was a former investment banker for Deutsche Bank. He was hired to kick ass. And that's exactly what he's doing. He realized that, yeah, the club's got a lot of heart, but it's time for it to get a little professional too.
200 million to 20 million.
It's real.
Yeah, yeah. And I guess his big goal is just to get the debt down to $50 million, which he says is a manageable size. And look, he's upfront with the fans. He's like, our football club, it's going to suck for a year or two. But with patience, there will be a pathway back up to the top.
100%, it's a rebuild. But again, a rebuild with 190,000 fans voicing in on how to rebuild it. And so, oh my God, Matthias gets absolutely pummeled in the newspapers for this process. So what his answer was is they're going to have another separate cooperative that will run Velton's Arena, which is like the Madison Square Garden.
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