The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Lucas Ríos will not be coming to Beitar Jerusalem
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Atlanta is saying, and nobody at Beitar Jerusalem is enjoying the guessing.
Market30 Aug 2027
Adi Yona asks to leave Beitar Jerusalem
“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.
The dugout30 Aug 2027
Roey Elimelech says Beitar Jerusalem went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Match28 Aug 2027
Beitar Jerusalem make it 6 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Beitar Jerusalem have 6 straight wins of it.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Beitar Jerusalem
Ignacio Sosa and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Beitar Jerusalem
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Osher Davida 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 targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Ivan Bašić
Beitar Jerusalem asked and Andorra said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
The terraces30 Aug 2027
The crowd has taken to Mohamad Abu Rumi
At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Beitar Jerusalem find a way past Hapoel Kiryat Shmona
- Market One of our own: Nir David joins the Beitar Jerusalem first team
- Market Sagiv Refaelov steps up from the Beitar Jerusalem academy