The Hapoel Raanana Post
Market24 Aug 2026
Maccabi Haifa come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hapoel Raanana did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
No thanks: Ben Lederman rejects the move
Hapoel Raanana had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Maccabi Tel Aviv, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Boardroom24 Aug 2026
2 academy graduates step up at Hapoel Raanana
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
Saidu Fofanah 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.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Cruzeiro tell Hapoel Raanana: Keny Arroyo 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Nir Melikson steps up from the Hapoel Raanana academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nir Melikson has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market24 Aug 2026
One of our own: Dan Revivo joins the Hapoel Raanana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dan Revivo is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hapoel Raanana try to borrow JP Murilo
Vasco da Gama have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Hapoel Raanana ask about Alexsandro
A loan enquiry to Grêmio: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Boardroom Hapoel Raanana say no to the training-ground money
- Market Dor Kochav placed on the list
- Looking ahead Hapoel Raanana travel to Hapoel Beer Sheva