The St. Pauli Chronicle
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
The caretaker keeps it: Robert Schmitt confirmed
A month of looking elsewhere ended where it started. He already knows every name in the building; the rest of it he now has to prove in public.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at St. Pauli
Tom Bischof 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Door shut on Florián Monzón
St. Pauli asked and Hamburger SV said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The dugout19 Jul 2027
Connor Metcalfe knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at St. Pauli, and both men came out saying it was fine.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Erik Ahlstrand remains an outsider
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at St. Pauli would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market19 Jul 2027
St. Pauli and Jannik Westphal are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- Squad A wage question at St. Pauli
- The dugout A door opens for Ricky-Jade Jones
- Squad The date has moved again for Helmut Thomas
- The dugout Tomoya Ando keeps his manager's vote