Gregor Zimmermann

Attacking Midfielder (R) - St. Pauli
4 Aug 2043
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Gregor Zimmermann

808 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

20 Jan 2042
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Joel Chima Fujita breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Dominik Scholz

There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Gregor Zimmermann: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” St. Pauli have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Tempers go at St. Pauli

Joel Chima Fujita was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Borussia Dortmund take the points off St. Pauli

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Market

Borussia Mönchengladbach are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. St. Pauli will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

In brief

Back issues
792 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

30 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Dominik Klein

94 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.

Match

The cup run ends for St. Pauli

0‑2 against Mainz 05, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Stefan Lange breaks a bone — 93 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 93 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Georg Haas keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” St. Pauli may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Dominik Scholz

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Gregor Zimmermann at 21 — 7.76

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Gregor Zimmermann did not need any: 7.76, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Sven Krämer

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Gregor Zimmermann

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

St. Pauli get the job done against Heidenheim

A 2‑0 win over Heidenheim, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief