The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Hamburger SV 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 sign Iker Fimbres for $2.9M
The paperwork is done: Iker Fimbres joins from Monterrey in a deal worth $2.9M. Now comes the harder part.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nadiem Amiri signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Nadiem Amiri and Mainz 05 agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Nadiem Amiri in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Mainz 05 this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Kaishu Sano 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Paul Nebel
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
In brief
- Market Mainz 05 sign Markus Frank, one for the future
- Market Mainz 05 buy the years ahead of Jürgen Günther