The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Nir Melikson keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Hapoel Tel Aviv may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market27 Mar 2028
Dor Benyamini is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hapoel Tel Aviv is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad27 Mar 2028
A row about effort at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Lior Kasa 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 Hapoel Tel Aviv this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
When it matters, Mor Buskila 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.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
Roei Alkukin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Roei Alkukin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market27 Mar 2028
Andrian Kraev linked with a move away
The name of Andrian Kraev keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Hapoel Tel Aviv say nothing, which says plenty.
Squad27 Mar 2028
Yoni Ferber wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Hapoel Tel Aviv will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
The dugout27 Mar 2028
The manager comes out for Andrian Kraev
Public backing, and the sort that costs a manager something if it turns out to be wrong. Andrian Kraev has been told in front of everybody that the shirt is his.
In brief
- Squad Omri Glazer has settled at Hapoel Tel Aviv
- Boardroom The Hapoel Tel Aviv academy earns its keep
- Boardroom Hapoel Tel Aviv board back the manager