The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier
Transfer targets30 Aug 2027
Door shut on Eduardo Darias
Maccabi Tel Aviv asked and Penarol said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Match28 Aug 2027
Maccabi Haifa end the Maccabi Tel Aviv run at 12
Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 12 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.
Market30 Aug 2027
Oussama Idrissi has his eye on Europe
It is not a grievance and it is not a demand: he wants to play continental football, and he has stopped hiding it. Whether Maccabi Tel Aviv can give him that is a question about the club, not about him.
Squad30 Aug 2027
The step up is real for Sayed Abu Farchi
At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad30 Aug 2027
A falling-out at Maccabi Tel Aviv
Mohamed Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Hélio Varela has improved at 25, which nobody expected
Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.
Squad30 Aug 2027
Kervin Andrade signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Kervin Andrade commits to Maccabi Tel Aviv for another 5 years.
Boardroom30 Aug 2027
5 academy players handed senior numbers at Maccabi Tel Aviv
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.
Market30 Aug 2027
Lior Weissman steps up from the Maccabi Tel Aviv academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Lior Weissman 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.
In brief
- Market Maccabi Tel Aviv promote Matan Cohen from within
- Market Guy Abada steps up from the Maccabi Tel Aviv academy
- Match Maccabi Haifa take the points off Maccabi Tel Aviv