Itay Shavit

Defensive Midfielder - Maccabi Haifa
7 Mar 2032
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Marked for Itay Shavit

269 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

22 Sep 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings22 Sep 2031

Both of them Cédric Don's — 8.10

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.10, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

The dugout22 Sep 2031

Sean Goldberg: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Maccabi Haifa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Jelle Bataille 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.

Market22 Sep 2031

Lucas Vieira 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.

Squad22 Sep 2031

Cédric Don 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.

Match20 Sep 2031

Cédric Don the difference as Maccabi Haifa beat Hapoel Acre

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cédric Don. 3‑1 against Hapoel Acre, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Market22 Sep 2031

One of our own: Lior Hemed joins the Maccabi Haifa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lior Hemed is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market22 Sep 2031

One of our own: Almog Cohen joins the Maccabi Haifa first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Almog Cohen is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market22 Sep 2031

Shon Solomon steps up from the Maccabi Haifa academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shon Solomon has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief

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256 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

23 Jun 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad23 Jun 2031

A knee injury of the worst kind for Pierre Cornud

53 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maccabi Haifa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market23 Jun 2031

Mark Golenkov agrees terms with Hapoel Kfar Saba

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Maccabi Haifa people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market23 Jun 2031

Mark Golenkov hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Maccabi Haifa can pretend not to have heard.

Market23 Jun 2031

Maccabi Haifa turn down Hapoel Raanana for Yagel Tarshish

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market23 Jun 2031

Niv Gabay has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Maccabi Haifa they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad23 Jun 2031

Trivante Stewart 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.

Squad23 Jun 2031

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.

Squad23 Jun 2031

A late step up for Itay Shavit

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

The dugout23 Jun 2031

When it matters, Cédric Don plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

236 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

3 Feb 2031
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market3 Feb 2031

Nir Revivo has said yes to Hapoel Kfar Saba

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Maccabi Haifa have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Player ratings3 Feb 2031

Cédric Don was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Market3 Feb 2031

Mathis Hannedouche 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.

The dugout3 Feb 2031

Abeiku Schlupp: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Maccabi Haifa have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Boardroom3 Feb 2031

Window shuts: 3 in, 11 out at Maccabi Haifa

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 3 arrived, 11 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Match1 Feb 2031

Nobody wants to play Maccabi Haifa right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad3 Feb 2031

Jelle Bataille 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.

Market3 Feb 2031

Godswill Utum 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.

Squad3 Feb 2031

A move Itay Shavit would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Itay Shavit is living that version at Maccabi Haifa, and it tends to show in the first month.

In brief