Almog Elshtein

Central Midfielder - Hapoel Kfar Saba
19 Dec 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Almog Elshtein

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The Hapoel Kfar Saba Post

14 Jun 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Anger at Hapoel Kfar Saba spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Market

Hapoel Kfar Saba pay Maccabi Tel Aviv $3.3M for a proper upgrade

Maccabi Tel Aviv did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $3.3M for Elad Madmon, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Kfar Saba agree $160.0K for Sali Pahima

The clubs have shaken hands with Hapoel Haifa; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Squad

A falling-out at Hapoel Kfar Saba

Denny Gropper and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

An offer of $35.0K for Ben Sørensen

Hapoel Kfar Saba have gone to Hapoel 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

Hapoel Kfar Saba baulk at the price for Glenn Alvin

Maccabi Haifa wanted more than $29.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The terraces

The town asked, and Hapoel Kfar Saba paid $3.3M

Elad Madmon was the name on every phone-in, and the club has gone and signed him for $3.3M. For one week the board can do no wrong, which is a week most boards never get.

Market

Omer Levy steps up from the Hapoel Kfar Saba academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Omer Levy has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad

A late step up for Almog Elshtein

At 24 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

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The Hapoel Kfar Saba Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Hamza Shibli out for 114 days

114 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Hapoel Kfar Saba lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

Hapoel Kfar Saba taken apart

0‑7 to Maccabi Haifa, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Yanir Nimni hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Hapoel Kfar Saba can pretend not to have heard.

Match

4 matches without a win for Hapoel Kfar Saba

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Hapoel Kfar Saba are no longer polite ones.

Match

7 goals as Hapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Haifa go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Hapoel Kfar Saba and Maccabi Haifa, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Squad

Yoav Koren 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.

The dugout

Oren Biton gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Late improvement for Almog Elshtein

At 24 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.

Boardroom

Doors closed at Hapoel Kfar Saba

The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.

In brief