Yonatan David

Left Wingback - Maccabi Tel Aviv
14 Mar 2028
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Marked for Yonatan David

84 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match1 Mar 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv march on in the cup

Beitar Jerusalem are out and Maccabi Tel Aviv go through, 3‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match4 Mar 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv let it slip despite Kristijan Belić

Kristijan Belić had done his part in building a 2-goal cushion. What happened after that was collective, and Hapoel Kfar Saba were allowed back into a match that had been finished with.

Match6 Mar 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 50 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Match4 Mar 2028

Whatever happens, Maccabi Tel Aviv do not lose

12 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Sayed Abu Farchi scores twice — 8.88

Two goals and a mark of 8.88 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Both of them Kristijan Belić's — 8.28

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.28, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market6 Mar 2028

Only the photograph left for Noam Ben-Harush

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Noam Ben-Harush will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Maccabi Tel Aviv the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Player ratings6 Mar 2028

Up for the corner, and Issouf Sissokho delivers — 7.80

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Issouf Sissokho scored, was marked 7.80, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

The dugout6 Mar 2028

Yonatan David says Maccabi Tel Aviv 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.

In brief

Back issues
76 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match8 Jan 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv tear Hapoel Kiryat Shmona apart

Rarely has this fixture seen a display like it: 6‑2 against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona, and it could have been more.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

An offer of $21.2M for Tomáš Suslov

Maccabi Tel Aviv have gone to Slovan Bratislava with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Market10 Jan 2028

Issouf Sissokho 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 Maccabi Tel Aviv, and it is not being withdrawn.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

No thanks: Daniel Dappa rejects the move

Maccabi Tel Aviv had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Hapoel Tel Aviv, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Both of them Kristijan Belić's — 8.53

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.53, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match10 Jan 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv up to position 3

32 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv make their move for Giovanni Simeone

$5.5M on the table at São Paulo. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv rebuffed over Stav Toriel

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Hapoel Tel Aviv have kept their man, and Maccabi Tel Aviv go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market10 Jan 2028

Maccabi Tel Aviv turn down Hapoel Haifa for Sayed Abu Farchi

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

In brief

58 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

6 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Maccabi Tel Aviv agree $11.9M for Lucas Assadi

The clubs have shaken hands with AIK; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market6 Sep 2027

Mohamed Camara 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 Tel Aviv can pretend not to have heard.

Market6 Sep 2027

Ester Sokler has said yes to Hapoel Acre

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Maccabi Tel Aviv have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Market6 Sep 2027

Maccabi Tel Aviv say no — this time

The offer from Maccabi Haifa for Ion Nicolăescu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Transfer targets6 Sep 2027

Atletico Nacional tell Maccabi Tel Aviv: Jorman Campuzano is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market6 Sep 2027

Ido Shahar’s move to Hapoel Raanana falls through

The deal that would have taken Ido Shahar to Hapoel Raanana has collapsed at the last stage, and he reports back to Maccabi Tel Aviv with a summer to forget and a season still to play. Nobody is saying which side walked away.

Boardroom6 Sep 2027

Window shuts: 13 in, 23 out at Maccabi Tel Aviv

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 13 arrived, 23 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Kristijan Belić 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.

Squad6 Sep 2027

Yonatan David signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Yonatan David and Maccabi Tel Aviv agree another 4 years.

In brief