The Holstein Kiel Chronicle
Market7 Sep 2026
Not going: Kasper Davidsen stays at Holstein Kiel
“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Hamburger SV had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.
Market7 Sep 2026
Tim Ottilinger 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 The request is on a desk at Holstein Kiel, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Deadline passes with 19 signed and 11 gone
That is the business done at Holstein Kiel until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A falling-out at Holstein Kiel
Joël Schmied and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Holstein Kiel counting the cost
The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Holstein Kiel now.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Holstein Kiel training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jonas Meffert is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Fenerbahce tell Holstein Kiel: Héliton is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The formation has left Joël Schmied behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Holstein Kiel will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Fiete Arp moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at Holstein Kiel than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Phil Harres
- Market The market said no: John Tolkin stays put
- Looking ahead Holstein Kiel host Dynamo Dresden