Fin Stevens

Right Back - St. Pauli
22 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Fin Stevens

5 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

St. Pauli rebuffed over Ermedin Demirović

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. VfB Stuttgart have kept their man, and St. Pauli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Fin Stevens asks to leave St. Pauli

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Joel Chima Fujita 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 St. Pauli this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

St. Pauli come up short against Hamburger SV

Hamburger SV left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

A row about effort at St. Pauli

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Jackson Irvine was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Taichi Hara

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at St. Pauli

11 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Daniel Dietrich left the room before anybody could ask which.

Player ratings

Taichi Hara runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

St. Pauli turn down VfB Stuttgart for Joel Chima Fujita

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

St. Pauli rebuffed over Shuto Machino

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Borussia Mönchengladbach have kept their man, and St. Pauli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

St. Pauli make their move for Dan-Axel Zagadou

$4.8M on the table at VfB Stuttgart. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Market

Business is business: Eric Smith goes

VfL Wolfsburg paid $6.9M and St. Pauli took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

The terraces

A $6.9M sale, and a town that did not want it

Eric Smith has gone, the accounts have $6.9M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Market

Business is business: Ricky-Jade Jones goes

VfL Wolfsburg paid $4.8M and St. Pauli took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Eyes on Karol Mets again

The phone has started ringing about Karol Mets again, and this time the name on the line is Union Berlin. St. Pauli are listening politely and promising nothing.

Transfer targets

Anthoni due for a St. Pauli medical

Everything agreed with Internacional, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Pauli

Grischa Prömel was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief