The St. Pauli Chronicle
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
St. Pauli run out of patience with Heinrich Vogel
The end came on a Tuesday, as these things usually do: a short meeting, a shorter statement, and Heinrich Vogel clearing his office by noon. Football’s cruellest ritual, performed to schedule.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
Karl Haas takes charge at St. Pauli
“Somebody has to pick the team on Saturday, and this week that is me.” An interim appointment with no promises attached, which is how most of them start.
Market28 Aug 2028
Marwin Schmitz hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what St. Pauli can pretend not to have heard.
Transfer targets28 Aug 2028
Too dear: St. Pauli walk away from Moritz-Broni Kwarteng
$2.1M was the most the club would pay and VfL Bochum 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 targets28 Aug 2028
Door shut on Ron-Thorben Hoffmann
St. Pauli asked and SC Paderborn said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Words exchanged at St. Pauli
Fisnik Asllani 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.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
5 academy graduates step up at St. Pauli
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Match26 Aug 2028
3 matches without a goal for St. Pauli
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
The dugout28 Aug 2028
Gift Orban gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- Player ratings Arkadiusz Pyrka beats them one at a time
- Market Heinrich Krüger steps up from the St. Pauli academy
- Market Robert Lorenz steps up from the St. Pauli academy