Mainz 05: Strong year 2024 with clever transfers and sporting recovery!

FSV Mainz 05 can look back on a successful 2024 calendar year in the Bundesliga. With a high points average of 50 points from 33 games, the Rheinhessen are just below the best of 57 points that they achieved in 2021, when 38 games were played due to the pandemic. The club is led by sports director Christian Heidel and captain Jonathan Burkardt, while Nadiem Amiri also plays an important role in the team, as kicker.de reported.

Heidel has also imposed a winter transfer ban on the squad's most valuable player to ensure the team's stability. The best points average was achieved in 2010, when Mainz got 56 points from 34 games.

Strategy and transfers

In the current transfer period, Christian Heidel has already signed six players and achieved a transfer plus of 14.4 million euros. In a remarkable move, the club sold a 30-year-old player on a short-term contract for €10 million. Heidel plans to sign both an experienced central defender and a striker. His strategy is based on early planning, as the coach was already chosen and high transfer revenues were expected, which was also the case world.de confirmed.

Heidel emphasized in detail that the success rate for player transfers is high because Mainz realistically assesses who they are interesting for. In the last decade the club has built two football stadiums, with the first paid off and the second largely financed. Heidel sees player departures as an effective marketing tool to attract new talent and emphasizes the importance of databases and live impressions for player evaluation.