The St. Pauli Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Jackson Irvine breaks a bone — 106 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 106 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Aug 2026
St. Pauli sign Saël Kumbedi for $5.0M
The paperwork is done: Saël Kumbedi joins from VfL Wolfsburg in a deal worth $5.0M. Now comes the harder part.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fin Stevens asks to leave St. Pauli
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market24 Aug 2026
St. Pauli say no — this time
The offer from Lugano for Muhammad Dahaba was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at St. Pauli
Joel Chima Fujita was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Graduation day at St. Pauli
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
Market24 Aug 2026
St. Pauli promote Ralph Meyer from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ralph Meyer 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at St. Pauli training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Karol Mets is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at St. Pauli
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Saël Kumbedi
- Boardroom St. Pauli spend it where nobody looks