Ofek Peretz

Right Midfielder - Free Agent
23 Oct 2035
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Ofek Peretz

472 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

13 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Maccabi Haifa counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Maccabi Haifa now.

Market

Mauro asks to leave Maccabi Haifa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Haifa

Cédric Don was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market

Ofek Peretz is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maccabi Haifa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Hayder Abdulkareem falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Maccabi Haifa

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

In brief

Back issues
468 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

16 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Maccabi Haifa counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at Maccabi Haifa now.

Market

Mauro asks to leave Maccabi Haifa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Mauro says Maccabi Haifa went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Abdul Mumin in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Maccabi Haifa to lose Ofek Peretz for free

There is no worse way to lose a footballer. Ofek Peretz has pre-agreed a move away, which means every appearance between now and June is made by a man the club can no longer sell, and somebody upstairs will be asked why the contract was allowed to get here.

Market

Ofek Peretz is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maccabi Haifa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

In brief

446 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

12 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Cédric Don is in the form of his life

A season average of 7.98 with 30 goals behind it. Opponents have started planning around him, which is the sincerest compliment football pays.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Hidemasa Morita yet — 7.88

At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 7.88 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Tomás Chetelain asks to leave Maccabi Haifa

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Match

Maccabi Haifa make home a hard place to visit

12 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.

Squad

Abdul Mumin in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Haifa training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cédric Don is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Match

Maccabi Haifa find a way past Hapoel Kiryat Shmona

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona made Maccabi Haifa work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Cédric Don in the eights

A performance of 8.75 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Francisco Cuzzani

Marked 8.58 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief