'It was difficult coming back': What St. Pauli's Eric Smith reveals now

TVS News AI, editorially supervised, presents 'It was difficult coming back': What St. Pauli's Eric Smith reveals now.

TVS News AI editorially supervised presents 'It was difficult coming back': What St. Pauli's Eric Smith reveals now.

When Eric Smith speaks, the Kiez listens. The St. Pauli star has now spoken out in detail for the first time – about a World Cup summer the newspaper describes as "crazy," about persistent transfer rumors and about what he has set out to do himself. "It was difficult coming back," he says in the interview with the Hamburger Abendblatt. A sentence that reveals more than it first appears to.

Smith talks about a summer that changed everything – a phrasing that points to a player who was on World Cup duty internationally while Bundesliga lights were already switching back on back home. That the return to day-to-day league life did not go smoothly, he admits in the conversation himself. What traces the tournament specifically left behind and how he experienced his reintegration at the Kiez club – you can read that in the full interview at the Hamburger Abendblatt.

Transfer rumors – and Smith's clear message

Alongside the personal insights, Smith also takes a stand on the speculation around his future. Where he could be heading, who supposedly has interest – all of that has been circulated through the sports press in recent weeks. Smith himself had so far stayed rather tight-lipped. Until now.

According to the Abendblatt's teaser, he names a "clear goal" – and in doing so pre-empts a direction in which things should go for him sportingly. How concrete his plans are and whether St. Pauli continues to plan with him – you'll find out in the detailed original interview.

Smith wants to draw a line under a wild chapter – and the club is listening closely to what its key performer is planning next.