The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at Mainz 05
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Market30 Aug 2027
Hong Hyun-Seok asks to leave Mainz 05
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A one-man rearguard from Robin Zentner
There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Match28 Aug 2027
4 matches without a win for Mainz 05
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Mainz 05 are no longer polite ones.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Tempers go at Mainz 05
Nadiem Amiri 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A late step up for Lee Jae-Sung
At 35 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Kasey Bos at Mainz 05
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Kasey Bos is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market30 Aug 2027
Agustín Fontana attracts admirers
The name of Agustín Fontana has come up in conversations Mainz 05 were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
Graduation day at Mainz 05
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
In brief
- Market Mainz 05 promote Klaus Braun from within
- Market Mainz 05 promote Marc Wolff from within
- Boardroom Mainz 05 board go back on their word