The Karlsruher SC Gazette
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Albion Ademi would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Albion Ademi is living that version at Karlsruher SC, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market10 Aug 2026
David Herold moves on
RB Leipzig pay $3.4M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Market10 Aug 2026
Karlsruher SC say no — this time
The offer from Kaiserslautern for Fabian Schleusener was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Ander Astralaga turns down Karlsruher SC
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Barcelona keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Karlsruher SC
Albion Ademi and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Karlsruher SC
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Fabian Nürnberger was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg tell Karlsruher SC: Bence Dárdai 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Louey Ben Farhat attracts admirers
The name of Louey Ben Farhat has come up in conversations Karlsruher SC were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Andreas Bergmann joins the Karlsruher SC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Andreas Bergmann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Kwon Hyeok-Kyu stays put
- Transfer targets A loan move for Leon Herdes is in the works
- The dugout Kwon Hyeok-Kyu knocks on the manager’s door