Martin Meier

Left Back - St. Pauli
4 Aug 2043
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887 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

27 Jul 2043
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad27 Jul 2043

Jahmai Simpson-Pusey breaks a bone — 115 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 115 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad27 Jul 2043

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jürgen Wagner

18 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.

Market27 Jul 2043

Martim Peixoto 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.

In brief

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883 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

29 Jun 2043
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad29 Jun 2043

Jürgen Peters damages knee ligaments — 43 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 43 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad29 Jun 2043

A fracture rules Georg Schäfer out for 100 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Pauli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad29 Jun 2043

Tempers go at St. Pauli

Jahmai Simpson-Pusey 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.

Market29 Jun 2043

FC Augsburg come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and St. Pauli did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market29 Jun 2043

Matthias Scholz 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.

Market29 Jun 2043

Only the photograph left for Harry Barnes

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Harry Barnes will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around St. Pauli the goodbyes have quietly begun.

In brief

864 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

16 Feb 2043
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match14 Feb 2043

14 unbeaten for St. Pauli

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 14 matches without defeat is a foundation St. Pauli did not have in the autumn.

Squad16 Feb 2043

Georg Thomas breaks a bone — 103 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 103 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad16 Feb 2043

Dominik Scholz keeps St. Pauli in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match16 Feb 2043

St. Pauli up to position 3

60 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad16 Feb 2043

Martin Meier: 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.

Squad16 Feb 2043

Uchenna Ogundu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match14 Feb 2043

Nobody wins at St. Pauli

10 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Player ratings16 Feb 2043

The afternoon belonged to Angel Peralta

A mark of 7.80, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Match14 Feb 2043

St. Pauli and Werder Bremen take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

841 Edition

The St. Pauli Chronicle

8 Sep 2042
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 Sep 2042

A fracture rules Andreas Nygård out for 69 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason St. Pauli will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings8 Sep 2042

Martim Peixoto, 35, rolls back the years — 8.12

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.12 at 35, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Squad8 Sep 2042

Tempers go at St. Pauli

Jahmai Simpson-Pusey 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.

Match6 Sep 2042

St. Pauli cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad8 Sep 2042

Uchenna Ogundu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad8 Sep 2042

Arkadiusz Pyrka stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Arkadiusz Pyrka and St. Pauli agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Match6 Sep 2042

St. Pauli find a way past Köln

Köln made St. Pauli work for it, but the scoreboard read 5‑4 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Match6 Sep 2042

Nobody could stop scoring

9 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about St. Pauli and Köln in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Boardroom8 Sep 2042

St. Pauli beat the market to Tim Beck from Köln

Köln will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Tim Beck has pre-agreed a move to St. Pauli, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

In brief

793 Edition

The Köln Sentinel

7 Oct 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad7 Oct 2041

A one-man rearguard from Jakub Zieliński

There were 12 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.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Ibrahim Maza has been here 14 seasons

489 appearances across 14 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.

Market7 Oct 2041

Jakub Kamiński raises the bar for Köln

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Köln heard it as anything else.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Keiber Lamadrid signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Keiber Lamadrid commits to Köln for another 2 years.

Squad7 Oct 2041

Jakub Kamiński falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match5 Oct 2041

A bad afternoon for Köln against RB Leipzig

0‑2 to RB Leipzig, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

In brief