Eli David

Defensive Midfielder - Maccabi Tel Aviv U18
16 Feb 2027
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Eli David

4 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Hapoel Tel Aviv come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Maccabi Tel Aviv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Maccabi Tel Aviv sign Maron Ghantous for $1.9M

The paperwork is done: Maron Ghantous joins from Bnei Sakhnin in a deal worth $1.9M. Now comes the harder part.

Transfer targets

Too dear: Maccabi Tel Aviv walk away from Gil Cohen

$1.9M was the most the club would pay and Beitar Jerusalem were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad

Maron Ghantous arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Maron Ghantous has, at Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Newertton rejects the move

Maccabi Tel Aviv had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Shakhtar, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Tel Aviv

Mohamed Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Haifa tell Maccabi Tel Aviv: Dario Župarić is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Boardroom

5 academy graduates step up at Maccabi Tel Aviv

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.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Tel Aviv training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gabi Kanichowsky is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

In brief