The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Doron Leidner 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 Doron Leidner is on it.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
The manager makes an example of Yoni Ferber
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Market12 Apr 2027
Marcus Coco linked with a move away
The name of Marcus Coco keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hapoel Tel Aviv say nothing, which says plenty.
Match12 Apr 2027
Hapoel Tel Aviv in the hunt for Europe
Position 4, 50 points, and a run-in that decides whether next season has Thursday nights in it. Nobody is calling it a race yet, which is what people say during one.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Ibrahim Tanko: “I am not a substitute”
“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Hapoel Tel Aviv will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Liel has been promised minutes
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Liel has written the date down.
The dugout12 Apr 2027
Marcus Coco keeps his manager's vote
The message was aimed at the stands as much as the dressing room: Marcus Coco plays, and the argument is closed until the manager decides otherwise.
Squad12 Apr 2027
The penny has dropped for Ibrahim Tanko
He looks like a man who lives here now rather than one who is working here. It took most of a season, and at Hapoel Tel Aviv the difference is visible from the back of the stand.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Good reports on Chico
The word out of the training ground is that he has been the sharpest man there all week. It is the quietest story a paper carries and it usually runs the week before somebody's run in the side begins.
In brief
- Squad Eli Natcho is out on the grass again
- Loan watch Decision time nears on Roy Korine