Marked for Stephan Krause
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad9 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Stephan Krause out for 17 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Pauli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad9 Nov 2026
6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Up for the corner, and Mathias Rasmussen delivers — 7.33
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Mathias Rasmussen scored, was marked 7.33, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
Market9 Nov 2026
The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.
Squad9 Nov 2026
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.
Market9 Nov 2026
Taichi Hara told to find a new club
“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Taichi Hara has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at St. Pauli.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Karol Mets
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad9 Nov 2026
9 new faces, and St. Pauli are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Back issues
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market2 Nov 2026
Taichi Hara 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 St. Pauli can pretend not to have heard.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
Karol Mets: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Pauli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad2 Nov 2026
26 days out for Stephan Krause after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. St. Pauli will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Joel Chima Fujita 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.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match31 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Marc Guiu is the month’s best young player
At 20 he was better than everybody his age in the division for four weeks running, which is harder than one good afternoon. St. Pauli will try not to make too much of it.
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“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.
Market2 Nov 2026
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Abdoulie Ceesay has his answer from St. Pauli; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Squad26 Oct 2026
34 days out for Stephan Krause after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. St. Pauli will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Grischa Prömel pops up at the right end — 7.80
7.80, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.
Match24 Oct 2026
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; St. Pauli are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 1‑2 defeat, delivered by Tobias Huber to a room that had heard them before.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Young player of the week: Marc Guiu
At 20 he was the best of everybody his age in the division for one weekend. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.
Market26 Oct 2026
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Grischa Prömel signs something — a contract at St. Pauli or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad19 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Stephan Krause out for 42 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Pauli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.36 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Marc Guiu, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.86
A mark of 8.86 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad19 Oct 2026
A one-man rearguard from Ben Voll
There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad19 Oct 2026
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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Jonas Adjetey is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match17 Oct 2026
6 matches without a win, and then this, against Heidenheim. Relief is a strange noise in a football ground and it was the only noise at the end.
Match17 Oct 2026
A 3‑1 win over Heidenheim, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces19 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Marc Guiu
At 20 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
From our football correspondent
Steady
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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.