It has been known for a few days that FC Schalke 04 and Simon Terodde will go their separate ways after the season. The only question is: where does the striker move to?
The fact that Simon Terodde will leave FC Schalke 04 in the summer after two years and currently 61 games (34 goals) in the S04 jersey came as a surprise to many fans of the Bundesliga club.
There are quite a few Schalke supporters who would have liked to keep the promotion hero. But Terodde will leave. He wanted clarity early on and Schalke has complied with this wish. His departure was communicated early on.
It’s clear that interested parties are lining up. After all, Terodde has a kind of “built-in goal guarantee” – at least as far as the 2nd Bundesliga is concerned.
According to information from this editorial team, the 35-year-old native of Bocholt has several options as to where he could pitch his tents from July 1, 2023. We play through five options.
Option 1 – Fortuna Düsseldorf:
The state capital wants to tackle the 1st Bundesliga in the 2023/2024 season at the latest. That goal scorer Dawid Kownacki will leave the club has already been certain for several weeks. That there is contact between Fortuna and Terodde is also known to this editorial team. Therefore, it is obvious that Fortuna Düsseldorf and Simon Terodde could fit together. Fortuna is ambitious and wants to move up, and Terodde, who scored 173 goals in 283 second-division matches, has good arguments for shooting Düsseldorf into the Bundesliga.
Option 2 – VfL Bochum:
Should VfL Bochum be relegated from the 1. Bundesliga, then a return of Terodde to Castroper Straße could again become a hot topic. Terodde has VfL in his heart and was extremely successful in the Bochum jersey between 2014 and 2016. He scored 47 times in 72 games.
Option 3 – Rot-Weiss Essen:
In Essen, they want to finally clinch a spot in the 3rd division and then plan for the new season. One in which things should continue to move upwards. In the Essen environment, Terodde’s name quickly came up after his exit from Schalke. There is certainly a lot of wishful thinking involved. But this editorial team knows that the name of Simon Terodde has also been mentioned in the bodies of the Red-Whites. Last Sunday, Terodde visited Hafenstrasse and saw a 0:3 of Essen against Mannheim. However, it is rather unlikely that he will be on the pitch at the Essen stadium next season. He would have to make very large financial sacrifices.
Option 4 – Preußen Münster:
SC Preußen Münster, the designated third division promoted team, is returning to professional soccer after a three-year abstinence. In any case, sports director Peter Niemeyer is looking for a new striker. There is also said to have been contact with Terodde’s environment. But similar to RWE: a Terodde move to the 3rd league currently seems unrealistic. The goal scorer simply has too many second-league options for that.
Option 5 – 1. FC Bocholt:
At the beginning of the week, this editorial team received information that Terodde was in negotiations with Bocholt’s sports director Christopher Schorch. Talks have taken place, but rather on a friendly basis. However, a return to his hometown and the club where he played in the 2001/2002 season may still come a few years too soon