The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Squad10 May 2038
A fracture rules Matan Natcho out for 84 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maccabi Petach Tikva will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market10 May 2038
Only the photograph left for Eitan Benayoun
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Eitan Benayoun will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Maccabi Petach Tikva the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market10 May 2038
Shoya Osako 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 Petach Tikva can pretend not to have heard.
Squad10 May 2038
Tempers go at Maccabi Petach Tikva
Sagiv Hemed 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.
Squad10 May 2038
A muscle injury sidelines Nir Cohen for 14 days
Nobody makes a documentary about a hamstring and everybody in the game fears one. Maccabi Petach Tikva will be careful with the return date, because the second one is always worse than the first.
Squad10 May 2038
Words at Maccabi Petach Tikva training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Shoya Osako is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Boardroom The numbers do not look good at Maccabi Petach Tikva
- Market The Omar Robles talk will not go away