The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Maccabi Haifa tell Maccabi Petach Tikva: Pierre Cornud is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Gabriel Souza due for a Maccabi Petach Tikva medical
Everything agreed with Santa Cruz, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Too dear: Maccabi Petach Tikva walk away from Shachar Rosen
$250.0K was the most the club would pay and Maccabi Tel Aviv were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Maor Erlich and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva try to borrow Joaquín Freitas
Flamengo have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Squad17 Aug 2026
A wage question at Maccabi Petach Tikva
José Cortés has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.
In brief
- The dugout Dor Glazer asks for a word with the manager
- Squad Questions about Maor Erlich on the training pitch
- Squad Liran Sardal is fit again