The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Squad28 Aug 2028
Luan damages knee ligaments — 50 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 50 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match26 Aug 2028
No mercy from Hapoel Tel Aviv
Hapoel Kfar Saba 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.
Player ratings28 Aug 2028
Emmanuel Boateng scores twice — 8.59
Two goals and a mark of 8.59 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
Hapoel Tel Aviv tie Uri Dabbur down
A new deal for the man in the dugout, and the clearest thing a board can say without calling a press conference about it. Stability is cheap to promise and expensive to deliver.
Market28 Aug 2028
Hapoel Tel Aviv say no — this time
The offer from Maccabi Netanya for Tal Archel was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Aziz Ouattara 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 Tel Aviv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom28 Aug 2028
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Hapoel Tel Aviv
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Market28 Aug 2028
Arif Al-Haydar attracts admirers
The name of Arif Al-Haydar has come up in conversations Hapoel Tel Aviv were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad28 Aug 2028
Mamadou Coulibaly has improved at 29, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 4 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
In brief
- Squad Andrian Kraev falls out with a teammate over standards
- Match Hapoel Tel Aviv make home a hard place to visit
- Market One of our own: Amit Refaelov joins the Hapoel Tel Aviv first team