Fortuna Düsseldorf must act quickly to avoid disaster after relegation from 2. Bundesliga. Ex-FC-Boss Christian Keller warns of a horror scenario. The relegation to 3. Liga is a disaster for Fortuna Düsseldorf: Two-thirds of the team have no contract, and the income is dramatically lower compared to 2. Bundesliga. Sport-Vorstand Sven Mislintat (53) confirmed on Tuesday (19. May 2026) that he is working „around the clock“ on planning for the upcoming season. The conditions could not be worse. Fortuna Düsseldorf starts practically from zero. There is only one certainty from Düsseldorf's point of view: The situation of Fortuna is dramatic! Although the club is one of the biggest names in the starting field of the upcoming third-tier season, Mislintat cannot make a statement about an immediate promotion. Christian Keller (49), former sports manager at Düsseldorf's Rheinland rival 1. FC Köln, looked with concern at the situation of the former Bundesliga club on Monday. In the „At Broski“ show by streamer Simon Schildgen („Gamerbrother“), he made a clear recommendation to the decision-makers. „To ensure the survival of the club, you must quickly switch the switch, have a completely different mindset, and get rid of this mourning and funeral atmosphere,“ Keller explained: „You must say: We are making decisions now – and one after the other – and turn it back to the positive.“ What Keller considered important: To overcome the massive break, quick and strong impulses are needed outside, with which a kind of awakening mood can be created. If the heavy weight of relegation is too long on the club, the fall to 3. Liga may not even be the end of the rope – and the situation in Düsseldorf could become much worse. „If you don't have this attitude now, then the next season will be bitter. And then something like in Ulm can also happen,“ Keller warned of the horror scenario that the SSV Ulm, a previous year's relegation from 2. Liga, experienced. The sparrows were directly relegated and will play in fourth-class after relegation from 3. Liga.