The Hapoel Raanana Post
Boardroom7 Apr 2031
Hapoel Raanana spell it out for Interim Coach
The board’s statement ran to three sentences and one of them mentioned results. Interim Coach has managed long enough to translate: win soon, or the next statement is shorter.
Market7 Apr 2031
Daniel Darzi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hapoel Raanana, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Yuval Titelman signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yuval Titelman and Hapoel Raanana agree another 2 years.
Squad7 Apr 2031
A falling-out at Hapoel Raanana
Denny Gropper and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Omer Senior 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.
The dugout7 Apr 2031
Isaac Oppong has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Hapoel Raanana will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Market7 Apr 2031
No place for Dan Galmor in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Dan Galmor has his answer from Hapoel Raanana; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout7 Apr 2031
The manager's exit leaves Rustam Abdullaev exposed
Every squad has men who were signed by a particular manager and men who were merely inherited. Rustam Abdullaev is in the first group, and the man who wanted him here is no longer in the building.
Squad7 Apr 2031
Denny Gropper can feel the drop
The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at Hapoel Raanana says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.
In brief
- The dugout Desmond Obeng has been promised minutes
- Market Wonderson Yakubu linked with a move away
- Boardroom The Hapoel Raanana dressing room answers