The SC Paderborn Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SC Paderborn make their move for Max Marie
$3.3M on the table at Eintracht Braunschweig. 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 Aug 2026
Colorado Rapids come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and SC Paderborn did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
SC Paderborn make their move for Fabian Schleusener
$420.0K on the table at Karlsruher SC. 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 Aug 2026
One of our own: Ralph Sauer joins the SC Paderborn first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ralph Sauer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
SC Paderborn promote Kevin Weber from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Kevin Weber 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
SC Paderborn promote Markus Zimmermann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Markus Zimmermann 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kennedy Okpala 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at SC Paderborn
José Ortigoza 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
Nick Bätzner signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nick Bätzner and SC Paderborn agree another 3 years.
In brief
- Squad 6 new faces, and SC Paderborn are still learning each other
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Lucas Copado
- The dugout Kennedy Okpala asks for a word with the manager