The Hapoel Raanana Post
Squad12 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hapoel Raanana
Ariel Harush 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Reef Sheratzky
At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Gil Barda has improved at 24, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hapoel Raanana
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Aviv Lin was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Ori Azulay
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
Omer Dahan faces his old club
Maccabi Haifa next, and one man in the Hapoel Raanana dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.
In brief
- Market Romuald Sawadogo linked with a move away
- The dugout A door opens for Yuval Titelman
- The dugout Dan Melikson asks for a word with the manager
- Looking ahead Hapoel Raanana travel to Maccabi Haifa