{"id":57038,"date":"2026-07-20T16:33:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/laurent-mendy-hearts-agree-deal-for-forest-green-rovers-captain\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:33:29","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:33:29","slug":"laurent-mendy-hearts-agree-deal-for-forest-green-rovers-captain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/laurent-mendy-hearts-agree-deal-for-forest-green-rovers-captain\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurent Mendy: Hearts agree deal for Forest Green Rovers captain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Hearts have agreed a deal to sign Forest Green Rovers captain Laurent Mendy.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The midfielder has been on the Tynecastle side&#8217;s wanted list for the past two transfer windows, with the club having had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cp809rrwdxxo\" class=\"ssrcss-1fqyhkk-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">bid turned down<\/a> in January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, a deal has now finally been struck for the 29-year-old French-born player, who is set to become Hearts&#8217; 10th summer signing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mendy joined Forest Green in 2025 from Macclesfield and played 47 games last season for the English National League side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Talks regarding personal terms are now under way as Hearts prepare for the first leg of their Champions League second-round qualifier against Sturm Graz on Tuesday (19:30 BST).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/ckg9r7v2vg3o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearts have agreed a deal to sign Forest Green Rovers captain Laurent Mendy. The midfielder has been on the Tynecastle side&#8217;s wanted list for the past two transfer windows, with the club having had a bid turned down in January. However, a deal has now finally been struck for the 29-year-old French-born player, who is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[1670,1787,449,1041,2891,7649,16042,16043,9734],"class_list":["post-57038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scotland","tag-agree","tag-captain","tag-deal","tag-forest","tag-green","tag-hearts","tag-laurent","tag-mendy","tag-rovers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57040,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57038\/revisions\/57040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}