Daniel Neumann

Striker - Mainz 05 U18
20 May 2029
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The Mainz 05 Chronicle

14 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Mainz 05 agree $12.0M for Louey Ben Farhat

The clubs have shaken hands with Schalke 04; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Transfer targets14 Aug 2028

Door shut on Yousef Salech

Mainz 05 asked and VfL Bochum said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom14 Aug 2028

Still nobody in the Mainz 05 dugout

13 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

Squad14 Aug 2028

Silvan Widmer 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.

Market14 Aug 2028

The Robin Zentner talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Mainz 05 know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market14 Aug 2028

The clock runs on Ben Bobzien's contract

36 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

The manager makes Hong Hyun-Seok a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Mainz 05. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

The dugout14 Aug 2028

Leo Weinkauf asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Squad14 Aug 2028

The penny has dropped for Urko González

He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Mainz 05 the difference is visible from the back of the stand.

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The Mainz 05 Chronicle

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad20 Mar 2028

Robin Zentner keeps Mainz 05 in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings20 Mar 2028

Nadiem Amiri goes up and wins it — 7.93

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.93 for the rest of it.

Market20 Mar 2028

Eric Martel wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Mainz 05

Benedict Hollerbach 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.

Match18 Mar 2028

Nadiem Amiri sends Mainz 05 past VfB Stuttgart

It finished 1‑0, and it was Nadiem Amiri’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Mainz 05.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

The manager makes an example of Fynn Lakenmacher

“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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Juan Franco wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Mainz 05 can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Lee Jae-Sung's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Daniel Neumann stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Neumann and Mainz 05 agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief