2021-03-01 13:36:02 GMT2021-03-01 21:36:02(Beijing Time) Xinhua English By Oliver Trust BERLIN, March 1 (Xinhua) -- If they are to avoid relegation, then struggling Schalke 04 will need a miracle after having won just one of their 23 league games. Now nine points adrift of safety, things look bleak for the Bundesliga club. The club's future is also far from rosy after the biggest clear-out in the league's history with head-coach Christian Gross, technical director Sascha Riether, and general director Jochen Schneider being sacked. Other exits were the assistant coach and a fitness coach. Fans fear their club could follow the fatal examples of other prominent German football clubs like 1966 German Champion 1860 Munich and the 1998 league championship winner FC Kaiserslautern. Both disappeared to the lower leagues after financial crash landings.