The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
A fracture rules Omri Altman out for 29 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Hapoel Tel Aviv will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Nobody could get near Marcus Coco
Successful dribbles: 31. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market5 Oct 2026
Stav Toriel wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Hapoel Tel Aviv hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Tempers go at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Chico was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Real improvement from Omri Levi at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Omri Levi is 18, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Andrian Kraev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Or Israelov
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match3 Oct 2026
Hapoel Tel Aviv get the job done against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
A 2‑0 win over Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
No hiding place for Fernand Mayembo
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Fernand Mayembo, and the manager let it.
In brief
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Andrian Kraev at his very best
- Player ratings Or Israelov in the eights
- Boardroom Wages swallow 112% of the Hapoel Tel Aviv income