Schalke boss Tönnies: "The end of the season would be a super meltdown"

Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - The Schalke supervisory board chief Clemens Tönnies expects dramatic consequences in the event of a season break in the Bundesliga due to the coronavirus pandemic.

"A season break would be the super GAU," said the 63-year-old to the "Welt am Sonntag". "Then we wouldn't see some clubs again next season, I'm afraid." He is currently "very worried" about FC Schalke and all of football, "because nobody knows exactly what scenario we can plan with".

The Bundesliga paused because of the Corona crisis until at least April 30, after which the remaining games could be played as ghost games. "We have to accept that, even if the atmosphere in the stadiums is of course brutally absent," said Tönnies. "But it is important that after the right measures have been taken, it is finally time to play again." He considers the risk to be "calculable" if tests are carried out properly.

FC Schalke could "make ends meet" with ghost games, Tönnies said. "We do not have reserves like other clubs, are not as unassailable as Bayern, but we are not alone in the league," said the chairman of the board. "We have to succeed in preserving the economic substance. We have just crashed and we are currently calculating several scenarios that we are preparing for." Tönnies did not want to give specific details about the financial situation of the district club.

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