The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
An offer of $23.1M for Nathan Tella
Mainz 05 have gone to Bayer Leverkusen with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 rebuffed over Fisnik Asllani
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. TSG Hoffenheim have kept their man, and Mainz 05 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market10 Aug 2026
TSG Hoffenheim come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Mainz 05 did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nadiem Amiri stays put
“The easiest signature of my career.” Nadiem Amiri and Mainz 05 agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Nikolai Rehnen due for a Mainz 05 medical
Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Mainz 05
Nadiem Amiri 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Mainz 05
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Alynho Haïdara was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Phillip Tietz 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
One of our own: Robert Hartmann joins the Mainz 05 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Robert Hartmann is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Mainz 05 promote Richard Braun from within
- Market Leon Bauer steps up from the Mainz 05 academy
- Transfer targets Mainz 05 try to borrow Patrice Čović