The Karlsruher SC Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $1.8M for Mika Wallentowitz
Karlsruher SC have gone to Schalke 04 with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Market10 Aug 2026
Grasshopper come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Karlsruher SC did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Albion Rrahmani due for a Karlsruher SC medical
Everything agreed with Venezia, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: Dylan Chambost rejects the move
Karlsruher SC had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Columbus Crew, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Barcelona tell Karlsruher SC: Ander Astralaga is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Matthias Keller joins the Karlsruher SC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Matthias Keller is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market10 Aug 2026
Patrick Krämer steps up from the Karlsruher SC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Patrick Krämer 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
One of our own: Karl Krämer joins the Karlsruher SC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Karl Krämer is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kwon Hyeok-Kyu stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Kwon Hyeok-Kyu and Karlsruher SC agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
In brief
- Squad Tempers go at Karlsruher SC
- Squad Meiko Wäschenbach falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Hans Christian Bernat gets it from the manager