The Hapoel Acre Gazette
Match9 Aug 2027
Every point is an argument now for Hapoel Acre
Position 14 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Market9 Aug 2027
Yadin Lugasi puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Hapoel Acre, and it is not being withdrawn.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
$250.0K settles it between the clubs for Hamoudi Kalaily
Bnei Sakhnin have accepted the money. What Hapoel Acre do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Marc Klok signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marc Klok commits to Hapoel Acre for another 2 years.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
Hapoel Acre rebuffed over Gilbert Bandama
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Maccabi Haifa have kept their man, and Hapoel Acre go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Hapoel Acre count the cost of losing Guy Natcho
27 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad9 Aug 2027
The formation has left Marc Klok behind
Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Hapoel Acre will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.
Squad9 Aug 2027
Home is on Ellis Spikner's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Hapoel Acre are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Transfer targets9 Aug 2027
A loan move for Ziv Ben-Shimol is in the works
Hapoel Acre have made the call to Beitar Jerusalem. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.
In brief
- Market Nobody at Hapoel Acre has picked up the phone to Shalev Ovnish
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Marc Klok