The Maccabi Haifa Herald
Match28 Aug 2027
Still nobody has beaten Maccabi Haifa
The unbeaten run reaches 16. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match28 Aug 2027
Maccabi Haifa make home a hard place to visit
15 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Market30 Aug 2027
Jonathan Mensah hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Maccabi Haifa can pretend not to have heard.
Market30 Aug 2027
Maccabi Haifa may not be able to give Bruninho what he wants
It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Bruninho wants continental football; whether Maccabi Haifa can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
A new deal for Amit Abada
The board have signed the man in the dugout to a longer contract, which says more than any statement of support. Stability is easy to promise and costly to keep.
Player ratings30 Aug 2027
Nobody could get near Nahuel Leiva
Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad30 Aug 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.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Real improvement from Hamza Shibli at Maccabi Haifa
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Hamza Shibli is 23, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A late step up for Pierre Cornud
At 30 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.
In brief
- Boardroom Graduation day at Maccabi Haifa
- Squad Nahuel Leiva wants to go home
- Market One of our own: Eitan Dabbur joins the Maccabi Haifa first team