After a little more than a year
Doning at Schalke 04: Cader planner must go
Updated on September 22, 2025 – 11:38 a.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Ben Manga came to Schalke 04 as a hopeful. But after three transfer periods, the squad planner must report reportedly.
FC Schalke separates according to the “picture” and the TV broadcaster Sky from Ben Manga. The director of professional football and squad planner must go with immediate effect. Sports director Frank Baumann informed him of this. According to Sky, the ideas of both sides are too far apart. The area planning area should be restructured in the second division club, which has started the new season with twelve points from six games – without manga.
Manga has been in the club since summer 2024, should lead a change at Schalke 04 at the time, lead the second division giant towards the Bundesliga. But both with a few transfers and with his coaching election Kees van Wonderen, manga was more wrong. Apart from Moussa Sylla, hardly any committed new signing and van Wonderen had to go again after a year. Neither Felipe Sánchez (1.2 million euros) nor Pape Meïssa BA (0.3 million) or Aris Bayindir (0.2 million) met expectations. At that time new additions such as Ron-Thorben Hoffmann, Martin Wasinski or Aymen Barkok are already gone.
The public criticism of Van Wonderen’s predecessor Karel Geraerts, who hardly used manas bought players, also led to unrest in the club.
After the arrival of sports director Frank Baumann in the summer of this year, manga had become a little less present in public, had focused on the scouting of new players. Baumann and sports director Youri Mulder took over the public relations work.
According to the “picture”, Schalke Manga pays a compensation of around 800,000 euros for the early.