{"id":709165,"date":"2026-07-24T17:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709165\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T17:15:09","slug":"hearts-sign-laurent-mendy-for-forest-green-rovers-record-fee-of-near-1m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/709165\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts sign Laurent Mendy for Forest Green Rovers record fee of near \u00a31m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mendy followed Savage to Forest Green from Macclesfield last year and was a near ever-present, playing 47 times as the Gloucestershire-based side finished seventh in the table and missed out on promotion after a quarter-final defeat in the play-offs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Forest Green say that the transfer of their club captain could eventually amount to &#8220;a club record fee of close to \u00a31m&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hearts, who finished second in the Scottish Premiership last season, say they viewed Mendy as &#8220;a standout&#8221; for Forest Green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Edinburgh club describe him as: &#8220;Tall and physical, Laurent&#8217;s versatility was key as Rovers finished in the play-off spots last season. Often deployed at centre-half, his ball-playing attributes allowed him to step forward and become an extra midfielder.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Born in France, Mendy moved through the lower ranks of English football from Thamesmead Town, Greenwich Borough, Whyteleafe, Ashford United, Dartford and VCD Athletic before a season in Sweden with Amal then four seasons with Macclesfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mendy followed Savage to Forest Green from Macclesfield last year and was a near ever-present, playing 47 times&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-709165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}