Clemens Tönnies has spoken about the situation at FC Schalke 04. A return is still out of the question for the former supervisory board chairman.

Clemens Tönnies is watching the situation at his badly struggling former club Schalke 04 with great concern – but continues to rule out a return in a management position. “No, my time is through. I’ve had the best time,” the former chairman of Schalke’s supervisory board said in Cologne on Tuesday: “We built Schalke together and everything has its time.” In view of the current situation, “my Schalke heart bleeds.”

Tönnies was a guest at the premiere of the documentary “DAUM – TRIUMPHE & SKANDALE”, which can be seen from 27 October on Sky and WOW and was filmed on the occasion of the 70th birthday of the former master coach Christoph Daum.

Tönnies stated that he had “often enough offered to help” and “in part got no answers at all.” Yet he is convinced that the former European Cup perennial contender and current second-division club can be saved. “Schalke is easy to do, you just have to be consistent,” the entrepreneur said, “The people in charge have to lead Schalke out of this crisis now. That’s the most important thing.” He added that he did not want to “pour oil on the fire.”

The question about the reasons for the sporting crash was “one of the hardest to ask me,” said Tönnies, who vacated his post in 2020: “I have no answer at all to what I see there, and no understanding either. I can’t comprehend things. Soccer is business, business, soccer is professionalism. “