The Mainz 05 Chronicle
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $47.8M for Jarrod Bowen
Mainz 05 have gone to West Ham United with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 make their move for Leroy Sané
$14.8M on the table at Galatasaray. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market3 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 say no — this time
The offer from RB Leipzig for Phillip Tietz was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad3 Aug 2026
16 seasons of Stefan Bell
360 appearances across 16 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Mainz 05 know what they have.
Market3 Aug 2026
Kaishu Sano wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Mainz 05 hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Paul Nebel signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Paul Nebel commits to Mainz 05 for another 4 years.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Mainz 05
Nadiem Amiri and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Lennard Maloney 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.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Mainz 05 ask about Leopold Zingerle
A loan enquiry to RB Leipzig: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- The dugout Nadiem Amiri knocks on the manager's door
- Market 36 months and counting on Sheraldo Becker
- Market Experience through the door at Mainz 05