Ido Cohen

Central Defender - Maccabi Petach Tikva
14 Sep 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Ido Cohen

4 Edition

The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Pierre Cornud

Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Maccabi Haifa said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Boardroom

Maccabi Petach Tikva go back to the board over Liam Hermesh

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $644.0K — a club that wants Liam Hermesh enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva baulk at the price for Liam Hermesh

Maccabi Haifa wanted more than $600.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Transfer targets

An offer of $80.0K for Itay Ben-Hemo

Maccabi Petach Tikva have gone to Maccabi Tel Aviv with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva bid $86.0K for Saher Taji

The offer went to Maccabi Netanya this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Maccabi Petach Tikva

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Market

Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Amit Refaelov from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Amit Refaelov has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Ben Levy from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ben Levy has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

One of our own: Amit Dabbur joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team

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

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Maccabi Petach Tikva make their move for Liam Hermesh

$600.0K on the table at Maccabi Haifa. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets

No deal for Matty Cudjoe at that price

Maccabi Petach Tikva offered $1.0M; Bnei Sakhnin said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Boardroom

Maccabi Petach Tikva go back to the board over Matty Cudjoe

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.1M — a club that wants Matty Cudjoe enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Pablo

Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Vasco da Gama said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Eyes on Guy Dezent again

The phone has started ringing about Guy Dezent again, and this time the name on the line is Maccabi Haifa. Maccabi Petach Tikva are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

A row about effort at Maccabi Petach Tikva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ido Cohen was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout

Adi Cohen knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Adi Cohen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

José Cortés linked with a move away

The name of José Cortés keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Maccabi Petach Tikva say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Questions about Giuliano Gurrieri on the training pitch

The standards have slipped, and in a building where everybody watches everybody it has not gone unremarked. This is how a player loses a place before he loses one.

In brief