Eitan Levy

Defensive Midfielder - Dibba
19 Sep 2038
Sunday
Process

Marked for Eitan Levy

629 Edition

The Dibba Gazette

16 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Seva Setiadi

23 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dibba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Evans Ampofo pulls a muscle — 19 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad

Saymon 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 Dibba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

Back issues
628 Edition

The Dibba Gazette

9 Aug 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Dibba has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Seva Setiadi

30 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dibba lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market

Eitan Levy puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Dibba, and it is not being withdrawn.

In brief

  • Squad Saymon out for 37 days
  • Squad Yahia Nader signs a new deal
  • Squad Hamdan Juma falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Boardroom The Dibba production line keeps running
624 Edition

The Dibba Gazette

12 Jul 2038
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at Dibba has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad

Tempers go at Dibba

Saymon was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Boardroom

Still nobody in the Dibba dugout

11 days with the chair empty, a list of names that grows and shrinks by the day, and not one signature on anything. Every week that passes takes the best candidates off it.

In brief

619 Edition

The Dibba Gazette

7 Jun 2038
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

Every point is an argument now for Dibba

Position 14 and 11 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

11 seasons of Mame Balla Gning

223 appearances across 11 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Dibba know what they have.

Squad

Evans Ampofo 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 Dibba this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Dibba beat the market to Yuval Ranon from Al Wasl

Al Wasl will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yuval Ranon has pre-agreed a move to Dibba, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad

Mahmoud Obaid stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Mahmoud Obaid and Dibba agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Hamdan Juma 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.

In brief