Livan Burcu

Right Midfielder - St. Pauli
12 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Livan Burcu

5 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

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Jackson Irvine shuts the door

Defensive actions: 40, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

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James Sands shuts the door

Defensive actions: 40, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Market

Mathias Pereira Lage 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.

Market

St. Pauli sign Livan Burcu for $10.8M

The paperwork is done: Livan Burcu joins from Union Berlin in a deal worth $10.8M. Now comes the harder part.

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.

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Tomoya Ando shuts the door

Defensive actions: 22, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

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Mathias Pereira Lage in the eights

A performance of 8.99 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Match

St. Pauli get the job done against Hamburger SV

A 1‑0 win over Hamburger SV, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Mathias Pereira Lage is off the mark for St. Pauli

The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Union Berlin taken apart

1‑4 to Eintracht Frankfurt, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Andrej Ilić hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Union Berlin can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Union Berlin sell Livan Burcu for $10.8M

Livan Burcu has left for St. Pauli in a $10.8M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Market

Andrej Ilić attracts admirers

The name of Andrej Ilić has come up in conversations Union Berlin were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Andrej Ilić 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Frederik Rønnow lets one through his hands

A defender's mistake gets tidied up by somebody else; a goalkeeper's ends up in the net. He knew before the ball crossed the line, and so did everybody in the ground.

Squad

Robert Skov gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

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A masterclass from Leopold Querfeld

Marked 8.43 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

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Woo-Yeong Jeong runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

3 Edition

The Union Berlin Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Business is business: Oliver Burke goes

Eintracht Frankfurt paid $7.9M and Union Berlin took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Market

Business is business: Matheo Raab goes

Mainz 05 paid $6.3M and Union Berlin took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Squad

Rani Khedira 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 Union Berlin this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Eyes on Livan Burcu again

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

Squad

No hiding place for Woo-Yeong Jeong

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Woo-Yeong Jeong, and the manager let it.

Market

The Ilyas Ansah question follows Union Berlin around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ilyas Ansah’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief