The Schalke 04 Gazette
Squad24 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Edin Džeko
149 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Schalke 04 lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Schalke 04 rebuffed over César Gelabert
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Gijón have kept their man, and Schalke 04 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Fee done, terms next for Husseyn Chakroun
Schalke 04 and Hannover 96 have settled on $3.3M. The rest belongs to the player and his agent, and a supporter who has watched one of these before knows not to buy the shirt yet.
Market24 Aug 2026
Janik Bachmann puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Schalke 04, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market24 Aug 2026
Zurich come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Schalke 04 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Schalke 04 go back to the board over Husseyn Chakroun
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $3.8M — a club that wants Husseyn Chakroun enough to be asked twice.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Robin Gosens in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Schalke 04 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
2 academy graduates step up at Schalke 04
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Market24 Aug 2026
Schalke 04 promote Maximilian Böhm from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Maximilian Böhm has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
In brief
- Market Schalke 04 promote Gregor Simon from within
- Squad Words at Schalke 04 training over how hard people work
- Boardroom Schalke 04 say no to the training-ground money