The Hapoel Haifa Chronicle
Market5 Jun 2028
Régis N'do asks to leave Hapoel Haifa
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Awajo Asefa arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Awajo Asefa has, at Hapoel Haifa, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Transfer targets5 Jun 2028
Itay Hemi due for a Hapoel Haifa medical
Everything agreed with Hapoel Beer Sheva, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Yoav Gerafi 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 Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market5 Jun 2028
Niv Antman is a Hapoel Haifa player again
He left as a boy and has come back still knowing where the away end is. Most signings have to be explained to a town; this one needed a photograph and nothing else.
Market5 Jun 2028
As if he never left: Awajo Asefa returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Awajo Asefa is a Hapoel Haifa player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Tamir Arbel signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tamir Arbel and Hapoel Haifa agree another 4 years.
Squad5 Jun 2028
Régis N'do 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 targets5 Jun 2028
Hapoel Haifa rebuffed over Loay Halaf
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bnei Sakhnin have kept their man, and Hapoel Haifa go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
In brief
- Market Hapoel Haifa promote Uri Melikson from within
- Transfer targets Hapoel Haifa try to borrow Omer Dahan
- The dugout Ben Natcho gets it from the manager