The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier
Market17 Jan 2028
Ion Nicolăescu 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.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Nir Solomon breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Player ratings17 Jan 2028
A brace, and Ion Nicolăescu takes the afternoon — 8.82
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ion Nicolăescu provided it, and the 8.82 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Match15 Jan 2028
Maccabi Tel Aviv make it 4 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Maccabi Tel Aviv have 4 straight wins of it.
Squad17 Jan 2028
Maccabi Tel Aviv count the cost of losing Roi Mishpati
37 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Market17 Jan 2028
Issouf Sissokho wants more than Maccabi Tel Aviv are offering
“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
No deal for Ofir Marciano at that price
Maccabi Tel Aviv offered $16.0K; Hapoel Beer Sheva said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Jan 2028
Maccabi Tel Aviv rebuffed over Orlando Mosquera
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.
Match15 Jan 2028
Maccabi Tel Aviv find a way past Bnei Sakhnin
Bnei Sakhnin made Maccabi Tel Aviv work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
In brief
- Loan watch 11 goals on loan for Ester Sokler
- The dugout Hélio Varela is still being punished for one mistake
- Loan watch Idan Trau has seen enough of Bnei Yehuda