The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Market24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva turn down Maccabi Netanya for Ido Cohen
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Door shut on Hamode Kanaan
Maccabi Petach Tikva asked and Hapoel Beer Sheva said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva bid $1.6M for Arad Bar
The offer went to Bnei Yehuda this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Eitan Tibi 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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
2 academy graduates step up at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad24 Aug 2026
A row about effort at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Samuel Owusu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva promote Gil Solomon from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Gil Solomon has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Itay David joins the Maccabi Petach Tikva first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Itay David is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva say no to the training-ground money
The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.
In brief
- Looking ahead A reunion for Naftali Balay
- Market Itay Revivo told to find a new club
- The dugout Omer Glazer knocks on the manager’s door