The Karlsruher SC Gazette
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $9.5M for Isac Lidberg
Karlsruher SC have gone to Darmstadt 98 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
Karlsruher SC say no — this time
The offer from VfL Wolfsburg for Marvin Wanitzek 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Pablo Sáenz is a medical away from Karlsruher SC
The deal with Oviedo is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
VfL Wolfsburg tell Karlsruher SC: Elvis Rexhbeçaj 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
Richard Maier steps up from the Karlsruher SC academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Richard Maier 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: Christoph Ziegler joins the Karlsruher SC first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Christoph Ziegler 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
Karlsruher SC promote Stephan Schubert from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stephan Schubert 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.
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Karlsruher SC
Marcel Franke 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.
In brief
- Squad A row about effort at Karlsruher SC
- Transfer targets Karlsruher SC ask about Dan-Axel Zagadou
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Karlsruher SC