The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette
Squad26 Apr 2032
56 days out for Alencar after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Hapoel Beer Sheva will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Boardroom26 Apr 2032
The scrutiny sharpens at Hapoel Beer Sheva
Nobody upstairs has said anything, which is the loudest thing they could do. Results buy silence in this game; the account at Hapoel Beer Sheva is running low.
Match26 Apr 2032
Hapoel Beer Sheva are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 58 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Market26 Apr 2032
Joseph Opoku asks to leave Hapoel Beer Sheva
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Market26 Apr 2032
Justo Giani is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hapoel Beer Sheva is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad26 Apr 2032
A falling-out at Hapoel Beer Sheva
Lee Hyun-Ju and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad26 Apr 2032
A row about effort at Hapoel Beer Sheva
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yarin Levi was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Apr 2032
Hapoel Beer Sheva lose Dan Levy
28 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout26 Apr 2032
Hélio Varela is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
In brief
- The dugout Jordi Liongola gets it from the manager
- The dugout Itay Ben-Hemo back under a manager who knows him
- The dugout Alencar gets picked when it counts