The Köln Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
The paperwork begins on Juan Peñaloza
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Köln have done the hard part with Mainz 05, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets10 Jan 2028
Köln make their move for Kacper Potulski
$3.1M on the table at Mainz 05. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market10 Jan 2028
Emin Kujović 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 Köln can pretend not to have heard.
Match8 Jan 2028
The wait goes on for Köln
4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market10 Jan 2028
Köln turn down St. Pauli for Emin Kujović
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad10 Jan 2028
Words exchanged at Köln
Jeremy Toljan 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 Jan 2028
Ellyes Skhiri falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market10 Jan 2028
Eyes on Jahmai Simpson-Pusey again
The phone has started ringing about Jahmai Simpson-Pusey again, and this time the name on the line is Hamburger SV. Köln are listening politely and promising nothing.
Market10 Jan 2028
Köln promote Jonas Hoffmann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jonas Hoffmann 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.
In brief
- Squad No place for Jackson Irvine in the new shape
- Loan watch Stefan Smarkalev wants to come home
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Saïd El Mala