The St. Pauli Chronicle
Market10 Mar 2031
Tim Siersleben has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether St. Pauli can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Words exchanged at St. Pauli
Joel Chima Fujita 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 Mar 2031
St. Pauli lose Ralph Schmidt
27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad10 Mar 2031
St. Pauli count the cost of losing Erik Ahlstrand
66 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match8 Mar 2031
Bayern Munich take the points off St. Pauli
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
The manager makes an example of Taichi Hara
“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.
Squad10 Mar 2031
Jannik Robatsch 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.
Player ratings10 Mar 2031
Tidiam Gomis in the eights
A performance of 8.04 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
The dugout10 Mar 2031
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 Interim Coach to a room that had heard them before.
In brief
- The dugout Mathias Pereira Lage dropped after a run of poor form
- The dugout Louis Oppie gets picked when it counts
- Market The Rodrigo Ribeiro talk will not go away