On Sunday afternoon, FC Schalke 04 received its ninth defeat of the defeat in the current second division season, lost 0-1 with the leaders 1. FC Köln. In the stands there was a piquant encounter between the long -standing supervisory board boss of Schalke, Clemens Tönnies, and the current CEO Matthias Tillmann. How did this meeting come about and what was it all about?
In the past few weeks around the start of the new FC Schalke 04 funding cooperative, there had already been several reports on Tönnies.
At first the speculation had increased that the 68-year-old could get back to the royal blue and participate in the cooperative shares. A short time later, S04 boss Matthias Tillmann had to row back and make it publicly clear: “In response to Clemens’ interview, I received two letters in which he correctly put and corrected that he did not want to participate.”
Now the former and the current S04 makers were seen together in the stands of the RheinEnergieStadion, there was the game of the narrow against 1. FC Köln.
Tönnies comments on encounter with Tillmann
According to the “Bild” information, the two are said to have talked for several minutes before the kick-off. The newspaper also published a picture that the two showed together in the second division game.
Contrary to first speculations, the two probably didn’t have too much to discuss. Tönnies said to the “picture” in a short words: “We had a factual greeting.”
Conjectures that the entrepreneur at FC Schalke could still have another financial commitment to the entrepreneur was taken directly from the sails. Tönnies ended his decades of commitment to the Gelsenkirchen in the summer of 2020.