Pellegrin

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28 Sep 2029
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Marked for Pellegrin

156 Edition

The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Idan Nachmias breaks a bone — 83 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 83 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Shareef Kayouf says no to Hapoel Tel Aviv

“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Shareef Kayouf had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.

Market

Yonas Malede is on his way

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

Market

Hapoel Beer Sheva say no — this time

The offer from Bnei Yehuda for Joel Pereira was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets

The paperwork begins on Dmytro Kryskiv

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Hapoel Beer Sheva have done the hard part with Shakhtar, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

Squad

A falling-out at Hapoel Beer Sheva

Lucas Ventura and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad

Real improvement from Pellegrin at Hapoel Beer Sheva

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Pellegrin is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad

Words at Hapoel Beer Sheva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Hamode Kanaan 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.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva rebuffed over Irakli Azarovi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Shakhtar have kept their man, and Hapoel Beer Sheva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
116 Edition

The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Only the photograph left for Yonas Malede

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yonas Malede will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hapoel Beer Sheva the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

A falling-out at Hapoel Beer Sheva

Dan Biton and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Hapoel Beer Sheva come up short against Bnei Sakhnin

Bnei Sakhnin left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Hapoel Beer Sheva training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Djibril Diop 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.

Player ratings

Dan Biton beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

The game went through Hélder Lopes — 6.86

Marked 6.86 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

The dugout

Amit Ohana gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Hapoel Beer Sheva dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

The dugout

Nir Refaelov answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

In brief