Tisalo Hummel
Appearances
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
But at that time, no one ever really heard of that company. I mean, their business was selling gas to kind of bulk clients to other German, like German utilities. They didn't really have consumers. So the brand was completely unknown. It popped up out of the blue and suddenly it was everywhere.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
The first thing is that, look, Putin wasn't the devil. He wasn't the devil for Tanyas. He wasn't the devil for Schalke. He was the devil for nobody in Germany. 15 years ago. That's just not how it was.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
Maybe that should have been the moment where people should have changed their minds and kind of updated their... They do a software update in their strategic thinking, which Tönnies and Schalke did not do. And you can say that maybe from that point in time, it became really a grave mistake and it went downwards ever since. Well...
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
Nah. For Ternius personally, not so much for the club, but for Ternius personally, the whole thing still made huge sense. He made money in Russia. So I'm not even sure if he feels like Faust himself.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
five four three two one who's an expert in all things meet baron it's a very very fascinating character you know i mean he's originally a butcher he grew up in post-war germany he often told the tale how poor everybody was back then and how much he's kind of rooted in the working class, which he truly is.
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Blood Empty: How a Beloved Team Made a Deal with the Devil
And he was a big, big, big Schalke 04 fan for his whole life. I mean, being a Schalke fan is something that you're born into. It's... something that is so much part of that working class identity in that part of Germany.