According to RTL/ntv research
Schalke apparently overturns deal with new shirt sponsor
By Luke Wilhelm
06/09/2023, 12:08 p.m
FC Schalke 04 was relegated from the Bundesliga a few weeks ago. For the second time in just three years. Because the club is still attractive, a new main sponsor is quickly found, it is said. But after research by RTL/ntv, the deal apparently fails even before the contract is signed.
It should be the way to a new and better sponsorship future for Schalke 04. Now the negotiations between Schalke 04 and the young company Hydrogen Deutschland GmbH have apparently failed. Research by RTL and ntv had raised numerous questions for the company and its managing directors.
Like Sky reporter Dirk Grosse Schlarmann reported, Schalke surprisingly rejected the planned three-year contract. According to Schlarmann, the company’s structure is not yet adequate.
Just yesterday, RTL and ntv reported on Russian CEO Denis K.’s connections to the influential oligarch Oleg Boyko, who is considered a supporter of Vladimir Putin and was sanctioned by Canada and Australia in the course of the war of aggression against Ukraine.
Schalke 04 did not comment on research
There are also results of research on a second Russian managing director Evgeny S. His name appears in connection with Maltese shell companies that became public knowledge in the course of the so-called Paradise Papers. When asked, Denis K. currently denies having contact with Oleg Boyko and Evgeny S. states that he does not own any shell companies in Malta.
However, Hydrogen Deutschland GmbH was not able to explain to RTL and ntv exactly from which sources the total of 550 million euros that the company claims to have come from.
Schalke 04 did not want to comment on our research when asked. Apparently he is now reacting by ending the negotiations.