The Maccabi Haifa Herald
Match6 Nov 2027
Nobody wins at Maccabi Haifa
20 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Match6 Nov 2027
Maccabi Haifa cannot stop winning
8 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Eitan Glazer breaks a bone — 20 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 20 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Gilbert Bandama, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.17
A mark of 8.17 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings8 Nov 2027
Manuel Benson runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market8 Nov 2027
Silva Kani is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Maccabi Haifa is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Jelle Bataille in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad8 Nov 2027
Words at Maccabi Haifa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cédric Don 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.
Match6 Nov 2027
Gilbert Bandama the difference as Maccabi Haifa beat Beitar Jerusalem
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Gilbert Bandama. 1‑0 against Beitar Jerusalem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
In brief
- Squad Defences have started doubling up on Cédric Don
- Boardroom Maccabi Haifa release $4.0M for the manager
- Loan watch Yarin Levi wants to come home