The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Julian Ryerson’s move to Mainz 05 collapses on the table
Fee agreed, terms agreed, and a scan that said otherwise. He goes back to Borussia Dortmund; Mainz 05 go back to the market; and both will insist there is no story here.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Kacper Potulski is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Transfer targets28 Jun 2027
Mainz 05 rebuffed over Luiz Henrique
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bayer Leverkusen have kept their man, and Mainz 05 go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Words exchanged at Mainz 05
Benedict Hollerbach 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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Silas 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.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Marcel Wober
“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.
Squad28 Jun 2027
Jonas Hoffmann signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Jonas Hoffmann commits to Mainz 05 for another 3 years.
Market28 Jun 2027
The Nadiem Amiri question follows Mainz 05 around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Nadiem Amiri’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
The dugout28 Jun 2027
Benedict Hollerbach 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.
In brief
- Market Mainz 05 put Marcel Wober up for sale
- Loan watch The goals keep arriving from Hong Hyun-Seok’s exile
- The dugout Stefan Bajić has been promised minutes