Edin Dzeko has barely arrived at Schalke and the fans are already showing their appreciation. It’s hard to imagine what will happen when he scores his first goal for S04.

Edin Dzeko has arrived at the airport, Edin Dzeko is at the hotel, Edin Dzeko is undergoing a medical, Edin Dzeko is at his first press conference at Schalke. Every step the new Schalke superstar takes into his royal blue world is absorbed by the miners’ supporters like sweet pollen.

No player signing since Senor Raul has electrified FC Schalke 04 fans as much as Edin Dzeko. Despite years of sporting hardship, including four years in the second division in the last five seasons, the signing of the Bosnian international has put S04 back on the European soccer map in one fell swoop.

Suddenly, Schalke’s team has two Champions League finalists, one with Loris Karius in goal and the other now with Edin Dzeko in attack. What other club in the second division can claim that? “Schalke is the coolest club in the world,” the fans like to sing in the arena. Now they believe it again.

Their love for their club has always remained the same; it has even grown in the most difficult times. But now it’s even better. Will the 39-year-old really shoot Schalke 04 to promotion? For now, it doesn’t matter.

The Schalke fans are surprisingly realistic and hope that it will work out as well as it did with Raul. But Dzeko satisfies their longing for Europe, for better times. They greatly appreciate that such a man has chosen their club after everything that has happened.

And they have been thanking him for it from day one. In the first few hours after his signing, several thousand Schalke jerseys with Dzeko’s name on them were sold, according to the club. Thousands. One of them, reportedly the very first, was bought by Sead Kolasinac, Dzeko explained at his debut press conference. Kolasinac knows how much Schalke fans long for moments like this. He is one of them.