The Bnei Sakhnin Gazette
Market1 Jul 2030
Fariz Alfitrah 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 Bnei Sakhnin can pretend not to have heard.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Words exchanged at Bnei Sakhnin
Daniel Paraschiv 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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
A late step up for Yadin Lugasi
At 31 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.
Squad1 Jul 2030
A row about effort at Bnei Sakhnin
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Reindorf Huncho was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad1 Jul 2030
Reindorf Huncho is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Reindorf Huncho has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout1 Jul 2030
Issouf Sissokho gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Issouf Sissokho is on it.
Market1 Jul 2030
No place for Itay Hemi in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Itay Hemi has his answer from Bnei Sakhnin; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market1 Jul 2030
The Daniel Paraschiv question follows Bnei Sakhnin around
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Daniel Paraschiv’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
Market1 Jul 2030
Bnei Sakhnin and Sheriff Alabani are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
In brief
- The dugout Ahmed Salman has been promised minutes
- The dugout Patrick Schlupp knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout The manager comes out for Daniel Paraschiv