The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Squad5 Oct 2026
João Klauss takes the match ball home
4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.
Match3 Oct 2026
No mercy from Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Kiryat Shmona will want this one forgotten quickly: 4‑1, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Hapoel Tel Aviv were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.
Match3 Oct 2026
Nobody wants to play Hapoel Tel Aviv right now
7 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Hapoel Tel Aviv
João Klauss 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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Stav Toriel was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
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.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
João Klauss in the eights
A performance of 10.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
Wages swallow 99% of the Hapoel Tel Aviv income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
In brief
- The dugout Ori Weissman: “That is the standard”
- The dugout Gad Amos gets it from the manager
- The dugout Hapoel Tel Aviv pick somebody else ahead of Ziv Morgan