The St. Pauli Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Eric Smith is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Hamburger SV waiting with a shirt. Nobody at St. Pauli is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli rebuffed over Christoph Baumgartner
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. RB Leipzig have kept their man, and St. Pauli go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The paperwork begins on Joël Drommel
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. St. Pauli have done the hard part with Twente, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Romeo Vermant turns down St. Pauli
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Club Brugge keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joel Chima Fujita signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Joel Chima Fujita commits to St. Pauli for another 4 years.
Market10 Aug 2026
Anton Baumann steps up from the St. Pauli academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Anton Baumann has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli promote Lukas Wagner from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Lukas Wagner has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market10 Aug 2026
Stephan Krause steps up from the St. Pauli academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Stephan Krause has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Taichi Hara 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.
In brief
- Squad Grischa Prömel is a square peg at St. Pauli
- The dugout Eric Smith knocks on the manager's door
- Squad A wage question at St. Pauli