The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
The paperwork begins on Julian Ryerson
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Mainz 05 have done the hard part with Borussia Dortmund, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
Too dear: Mainz 05 walk away from Nathan De Cat
$7.3M was the most the club would pay and TSG Hoffenheim were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Market21 Jun 2027
Mainz 05 turn down Thun for Silvan Widmer
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets21 Jun 2027
RB Leipzig tell Mainz 05: Pedro is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Market21 Jun 2027
One of our own: Tim Voigt joins the Mainz 05 first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tim Voigt is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market21 Jun 2027
Ralph Hahn steps up from the Mainz 05 academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ralph Hahn has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market21 Jun 2027
Mainz 05 promote Jan Hoffmann from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Jan Hoffmann has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad21 Jun 2027
A falling-out at Mainz 05
Benedict Hollerbach and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The dugout21 Jun 2027
The manager makes an example of Anthony Caci
“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
- Squad A smaller club would suit Anthony Caci now
- The dugout Adam Taggart has been promised minutes
- The dugout Silas knocks on the manager's door