FC Schalke 04 will pursue a new transfer strategy in the future and no longer wants to make loans without a purchase option.
The second division club announced this in a letter to its members. “The consequences of the personnel restructuring, which became necessary because of the relegation, are still being felt – it takes time for something new to be found. That’s why major restructuring should be over,” says the letter from which the “WAZ quoted.
The board and supervisory board at Schalke had “jointly adopted guidelines before the transfer period, which were based on a clear strategy: we sign players and avoid loans as far as possible – and if we do, then only with options for further commitments. We succeeded in doing that this summer “.
“The goal is to build a corset that we can build on next season and that we can develop, regardless of the league,” said the S04 leadership.
FC Schalke 04 has an option to buy FC Bayern’s offensive jewel
In fact, with Yusuf Kabadayi, only one loan player found his way to Gelsenkirchen in the past transfer window.
However, Schalke have a purchase option for the 19-year-old offensive talent from FC Bayern. According to media reports, this should be around one million euros.
Due to their financial difficulties, the Knappen relied heavily on loan players up until last summer, often without any possibility of further signing or with a clause linked to league membership.
Professionals like Alex Kral, Tom Krauss, Moritz Jenz or before that Darko Churlinov could not be kept for the club in the end – and by today’s standards would probably not have been committed in the first place.