Newcastle signed Japan forward Yoshinori Muto from Mainz on a four-year contract on Thursday, hours after manager Rafa Benitez hinted at concerns over a lack of transfer spending following a 4-0 friendly defeat.
Newcastle said last week that they had reached an agreement with the Bundesliga club for the transfer. Muto’s move was completed on Thursday after he was granted a work permit.
Muto, 26, has played 25 times for Japan and featured in one game at the recent World Cup, the 1-0 loss to Poland….
West Ham wrapped up preseason with a penalty shootout victory over Mainz in Austria to win the third edition of the Betway Cup.
Mainz have rejected a big-money bid for Ivory Coast international Jean-Philippe Gbamin from an unnamed Premier League suitor, according to the club’s sporting director.
Speaking to Bild, Rouven Schroeder confirmed that the Bundesliga side had received a significant offer from a Premier League club but have no intention of letting the 22-year-old leave.
“The good thing is we already received an extraordinary offer, but we turned it down,” Schroeder began. “Jean-Philippe will stay.”
Schroeder added…
LONDON — Japan forward Yoshinori Muto is set to join Newcastle United from Mainz after the clubs struck a deal and the player agreed terms and had a medical, the Premier League team said on Friday.
Muto, who was part of Japan’s World Cup squad in Russia where he featured in the defeat by Poland, has been on Tyneside ahead the proposed move, which is subject to a work permit.
The English FA is due to hear the case next week to decide if Muto, who has not recently been a regular starter for Japan,…
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Borussia Dortmund have completed the transfer of France under-21 defender Abdou Diallo.
The 22-year-old joins Dortmund on a five-year deal from Mainz, and the club will reportedly pay €28 million for the centre-back — the second highest transfer fee in their history.
Having joined Mainz for €5m from Monaco last summer, Diallo has more than quintupled his transfer value after only 27 Bundesliga matches.
He will replace defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos, who is set to join Arsenal in…
Nigeria international Leon Balogun has completed move to Premier League side Brighton and Hove Albion from Mainz, the club confirmed on Tuesday.
The 29-year-old, who has been named in Gernot Rohr’s World Cup squad, has joined the Seagulls on a two-year deal and moves to the Amex Stadium on a free transfer after coming to the end of his contract with the Bundesliga outfit.
“I am delighted to welcome Leon to the club,” Brighton coach Chris Hughton told the club’s official website. “He will add more…
Brighton & Hove Albion are close to signing Nigerian international defender Leon Balogun from Mainz, sources have told ESPN FC.
Balogun is out of contract at Mainz this summer and Brighton look set to bring him to the Amex Stadium on a free …
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Abdou Diallo — Mainz
A product of Monaco’s youth academy, Diallo joined Mainz for around €5 million last summer. He has settled quickly in Germany, helping his new club maintain their Bundesliga status with a string of impressive performances.
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Naby Keita received his fourth red card of the season as RB Leipzig’s limp finish to the campaign continued with a 3-0 loss at Mainz.
Keita, 23, will move to Liverpool in the summer but his disciplinary record must be of concern as he was dismissed for a second yellow card in stoppage time.
He had already been sent off three times earlier in the season: in the Bundesliga against Bourssia Monchengladbach, the DFB Pokal to Bayern Munich and in a World Cup qualifier for Guinea against Tunisia.
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A bizarre VAR decision caused mayhem in a Bundesliga game on Monday night when teams were ordered back on to the pitch at half time when the referee decided to award a penalty after watching a replay.
It was a miserable night for Mainz in Frankfurt with three calamitous errors and a red card seeing them lose 3-0 in the quarter-finals of the German Cup.
The referee helps himself to some sweets following a stoppage in play during the German Cup clash between Frankfurt and Mainz.
Freiburg will not protest about the VAR decision to award a penalty to Mainz during half-time of the Bundesliga match between the two on Monday, but said they remain unhappy about the incident.
Pablo de Blasis scored from the spot during the break after referee Guido Winkmann had earlier played on when Daniel Brosinski’s shot hit defender Marc Oliver Kempf’s hand.
The official was on his way off the pitch when video referee Bibiana Steinhaus told him he should watch a replay of the incident….