The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier
Market24 Aug 2026
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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 targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
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
- Market Maccabi Tel Aviv promote Eli David from within
- Market One of our own: Eli Weissman joins the Maccabi Tel Aviv first team
- Transfer targets Maccabi Tel Aviv try to borrow Adriano Jagušić