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Marked for Itay David

149 Edition

The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette

4 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad4 Jun 2029

Sagiv Glazer damages knee ligaments — 46 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 46 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Tomer Yosefi breaks a bone — 61 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match4 Jun 2029

Beitar Jerusalem up to position 2

52 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Market4 Jun 2029

Beitar Jerusalem say no — this time

The offer from Hapoel Beer Sheva for Boris Enow was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Words exchanged at Beitar Jerusalem

Aziz Ouattara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad4 Jun 2029

Roy Levy falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Market4 Jun 2029

Marc-Olivier Kehi attracts admirers

The name of Marc-Olivier Kehi has come up in conversations Beitar Jerusalem were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Market4 Jun 2029

Talks stall between Beitar Jerusalem and Roy Levy

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market4 Jun 2029

Omri Altman told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Omri Altman has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Beitar Jerusalem.

In brief

  • The dugout Matheus Davó has become a man the manager trusts
  • The dugout Roy Levy asks for a word with the manager
  • The dugout No hiding place for Itay David
Back issues
100 Edition

The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad26 Jun 2028

Yarden Cohen damages knee ligaments — 84 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 84 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match26 Jun 2028

Beitar Jerusalem refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 56 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Market26 Jun 2028

Maccabi Haifa join the queue for Adi Yona

Add another name to the list: Maccabi Haifa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Adi Yona. The answer from Beitar Jerusalem has not changed — yet.

Transfer targets26 Jun 2028

No thanks: Renato Marin rejects the move

Beitar Jerusalem had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Paris Saint-Germain, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad26 Jun 2028

A falling-out at Beitar Jerusalem

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

Squad26 Jun 2028

A row about effort at Beitar Jerusalem

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Victor Adeboyejo was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad26 Jun 2028

Zahi Ahmed has outgrown this division

There is a level at which a footballer stops being tested and starts being contained, and he reached it some time ago. Beitar Jerusalem know it, and so does everybody who watches him.

The dugout26 Jun 2028

Matheus Davó has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Beitar Jerusalem will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout26 Jun 2028

The manager makes an example of Itay David

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

93 Edition

The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette

8 May 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad8 May 2028

The knee: Yarden Cohen out for 139 days

139 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Beitar Jerusalem lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout8 May 2028

Itay David: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Beitar Jerusalem have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad8 May 2028

Miguel Silva 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 Beitar Jerusalem this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad8 May 2028

Dor Micha signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dor Micha commits to Beitar Jerusalem for another 2 years.

Squad8 May 2028

Victor Adeboyejo falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Boardroom8 May 2028

Valderrama will join Beitar Jerusalem for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Valderrama has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Beitar Jerusalem have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Boardroom8 May 2028

89% of the income goes out in wages at Beitar Jerusalem

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

The dugout8 May 2028

When it matters, Miguel Silva plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market8 May 2028

The Boris Enow question follows Beitar Jerusalem around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Boris Enow’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

83 Edition

The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette

28 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad28 Feb 2028

José Cortés breaks a bone — 74 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 74 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad28 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at Beitar Jerusalem

Victor Adeboyejo and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad28 Feb 2028

5 new faces, and Beitar Jerusalem are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

The dugout28 Feb 2028

Yarden Shua has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Beitar Jerusalem will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout28 Feb 2028

Liel Deri gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market28 Feb 2028

The Yarden Shua talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Beitar Jerusalem know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief