The Kaiserslautern Sentinel
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Kaiserslautern agree $5.0M for Alexander Røssing-Lelesiit
The clubs have shaken hands with Hamburger SV; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Kaiserslautern walk away from Manfred Ugalde
$13.1M was the most the club would pay and Spartak Moscow 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
FC Augsburg tell Kaiserslautern: Kristijan Jakić 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A move Raphael Obermair 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. Raphael Obermair is living that version at Kaiserslautern, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Jacob Rasmussen signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jacob Rasmussen and Kaiserslautern agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Kaiserslautern training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Raphael Obermair 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Kaiserslautern promote Marc Vogt from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marc Vogt 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
One of our own: René Müller joins the Kaiserslautern first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. René Müller 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
Kaiserslautern promote Christian Schäfer from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Christian Schäfer 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Michael Becker joins the Kaiserslautern first team
- Squad Tempers go at Kaiserslautern
- The dugout Mërgim Berisha knocks on the manager's door