The Maccabi Haifa Herald
Market5 Jul 2027
Maccabi Haifa say no — this time
The offer from Hapoel Haifa for Guy Melamed 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.
Market5 Jul 2027
Amit Cohen is a Maccabi Haifa player
The fee is $1.0M, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Maccabi Netanya drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Maccabi Haifa baulk at the price for Sagiv Glazer
Maccabi Tel Aviv wanted more than $970.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at Maccabi Haifa
Jelle Bataille 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Real improvement from Dan Melikson at Maccabi Haifa
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Dan Melikson is 17, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Market5 Jul 2027
Kenny Saief attracts admirers
The name of Kenny Saief has come up in conversations Maccabi Haifa were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad5 Jul 2027
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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
14 new faces, and Maccabi Haifa are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Maccabi Haifa ask about Jalal Abdullai
A loan enquiry to Molde: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Boardroom Intake day at the Maccabi Haifa academy
- The dugout When it matters, Pierre Cornud plays
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Mark Golenkov