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Hans Sarpei had not held back criticizing FC Schalke 04 in the past weeks and months.
"If you look at the team and the club, you can tell that a lot is broken," the ex-professional had recently explained.
Schalke have "no structure, no similarities, no values where we say that's what we stand for," the 44-year-old explained.
He would like to help ensure that this changes in the future.
Sarpei had already registered a candidacy for the Schalke Supervisory Board last year.
At that time, the general assembly with the election did not come about because of Corona.
This year it will be carried out: on June 13th, five of eleven positions in the important control body will be reassigned as part of a virtual meeting.
Sarpei wanted to run - alone: He is not allowed.
This was the decision of the club's election committee.
This committee was responsible for selecting ten candidates from the almost 30 applicants.
It remains to be seen why Sarpei's candidacy was rejected.
Peters probably thwarted the debt burden
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There was also no official reason why Peter Peters's application was rejected.
The 58-year-old Schalke intimate connoisseur, who only resigned his position as CFO last June after 27 years, wanted to join the supervisory board - he is also denied this.
The background is probably that Peters is held responsible for the high level of debt that has piled up over the past few decades.
At the end of the 2020 financial year, Schalke pressed 217 million euros in liabilities.
Peters is Vice President of the German Football Association and joined the Council of the World Association Fifa in April
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The club's internal opposition was also washed away.
Ulrich Paetzel and Frank Haberzettel, the two spokesmen for the “Tradition and Future” association, were also rejected by the election committee.
With them, the reasons seem obvious.
Ralf Rangnick was approached from within her group without a mandate from the club - with the aim of making the former Schalke coach the director of sports.
The venture failed, but it resulted in an acid test for the club and massive hostility towards the chairman of the board, Jens Buchta.
In addition, Markus Krösche, Buchta's favorite to fill the sports board, canceled.
Parts of the current supervisory board accused the group “Tradition and Future” of behavior that was harmful to the association.
What is surprising, however, is that Stefan Gesenhues was allowed to vote. Gesenhues had recently stepped down from the board of directors. It was he who submitted the proposal to Rangnick to the supervisory board - whereupon he was exposed to massive allegations of disloyalty.