Liam Eissat

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Hapoel Kfar Saba
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The Hapoel Kfar Saba Post

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Hapoel Kfar Saba march on in the cup

Beitar Jerusalem are out and Hapoel Kfar Saba go through, 2‑1 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Hapoel Kfar Saba win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 100th minute. Beitar Jerusalem will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Player ratings

Dylan Brioso, 21, steals the show — 8.50

Marked 8.50 at 21, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.

Match

Nobody wants to play Hapoel Kfar Saba 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.

Squad

Sali Pahima is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Market

Only the photograph left for Adam Khan

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adam Khan will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Hapoel Kfar Saba the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Words exchanged at Hapoel Kfar Saba

Denny Gropper 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Hapoel Kfar Saba

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

The terraces

Hapoel Kfar Saba supporters have found a favourite in Dylan Brioso

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Dylan Brioso has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief

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The Hapoel Kfar Saba Post

28 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Hapoel Kfar Saba are in real trouble now

Position 13, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market

Hapoel Kfar Saba sign Mor Siman-Tov for $960.0K

The paperwork is done: Mor Siman-Tov joins from Hapoel Beer Sheva in a deal worth $960.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Squad

Real improvement from Roy Harel at Hapoel Kfar Saba

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Roy Harel is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Market

Ben Sørensen comes home

The shirt still fits. Ben Sørensen is back at Hapoel Kfar Saba, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Market

As if he never left: Liam Eissat returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Liam Eissat is a Hapoel Kfar Saba player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Market

Roy Buganim moves on

Hapoel Raanana pay $130.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Gilbert Bandama 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 Hapoel Kfar Saba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Late improvement for Gitai Sofir

At 27 the improving is meant to be over, and it is not: 3 points better than a year ago. It happens to the ones who take the boring parts seriously.

Squad

A row about effort at Hapoel Kfar Saba

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

In brief