The St. Pauli Chronicle
Squad24 Jul 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for René Hoffmann
20 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. St. Pauli lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market24 Jul 2028
Oliver Irow 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
The step up is real for Neno Žeželj
At 20 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words exchanged at St. Pauli
Eric Smith 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
St. Pauli lose Connor Metcalfe
26 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
The manager makes an example of Pablo Gozálbez
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Boardroom $1.1M lands at St. Pauli thanks to Simon Spari
- The dugout The manager makes David Nemeth a promise
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Connor Metcalfe