The St. Pauli Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Terms done: Eric Smith is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and VfB Stuttgart waiting with a shirt. Nobody at St. Pauli is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Door shut on Tim Lemperle
St. Pauli asked and TSG Hoffenheim said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: St. Pauli walk away from Nicolò Tresoldi
$10.3M was the most the club would pay and Club Brugge were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Albion Rrahmani turns down St. Pauli
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Venezia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
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 move Jan Bürger 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. Jan Bürger is living that version at St. Pauli, and it tends to show in the first month.
Market10 Aug 2026
St. Pauli promote Andreas Braun from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andreas Braun 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
Jan Schulz steps up from the St. Pauli academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Jan Schulz has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
Markus Friedrich steps up from the St. Pauli academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Markus Friedrich has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Squad Words at St. Pauli training over how hard people work
- The dugout Eric Smith knocks on the manager's door
- The terraces The spotlight tightens on Kosuke Nakamura