The St. Pauli Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli turn down Borussia Dortmund for Eric Smith
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli make their move for Phillip Tietz
$10.0M 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli bid $8.4M for Dan-Axel Zagadou
The offer went to VfB Stuttgart this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Lars Ritzka would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lars Ritzka is living that version at St. Pauli, and it tends to show in the first month.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at St. Pauli
Eric Smith and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
As if he never left: Lars Ritzka returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Lars Ritzka is a St. Pauli player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Market10 Aug 2026
Eintracht Frankfurt join the queue for Arkadiusz Pyrka
Add another name to the list: Eintracht Frankfurt have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Arkadiusz Pyrka. The answer from St. Pauli has not changed — yet.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Joel Chima Fujita 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.
In brief
- Transfer targets Paris FC tell St. Pauli: Obed Nkambadio is not for sale
- Market St. Pauli promote Jürgen Sommer from within
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Louis Oppie