Nir Solomon

Right Midfielder - Maccabi Tel Aviv U18
15 Apr 2029
Sunday
Process

Marked for Nir Solomon

77 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

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.

Squad

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Market

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 targets

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 targets

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.

Match

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

Back issues
76 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ido Shahar agrees terms with Hapoel Raanana

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Maccabi Tel Aviv people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Match

Hélio Varela leads the rout of Hapoel Kiryat Shmona

3‑0, and Hélio Varela took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Maccabi Tel Aviv tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad

A fracture rules Nir Solomon out for 29 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Maccabi Tel Aviv will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Match

Maccabi Tel Aviv up to position 3

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

Market

Ben Lederman 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.

Player ratings

Both of them Hélio Varela's — 6.32

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 6.32, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match

Another one collected away from home

5 on the bounce on the road for Maccabi Tel Aviv. The coaches leave early, arrive at unlovely grounds in the dark, and keep coming home with three points.

Match

Nobody wants to play Maccabi Tel Aviv right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Tel Aviv bid $16.0K for Ofir Marciano

The offer went to Hapoel Beer Sheva this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

In brief

75 Edition

The Maccabi Tel Aviv Courier

3 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

38 days out for Nir Solomon after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Maccabi Tel Aviv will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market

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.

Market

Ido Shahar asks to leave Maccabi Tel Aviv

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Eyes on Elad Madmon again

The phone has started ringing about Elad Madmon again, and this time the name on the line is Hapoel Tel Aviv. Maccabi Tel Aviv are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Issouf Sissokho signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Issouf Sissokho and Maccabi Tel Aviv agree another 5 years.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Matan Levi

Maccabi Tel Aviv asked and Bnei Yehuda said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Christian Kouamé the difference as Maccabi Tel Aviv beat Beitar Jerusalem

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Christian Kouamé. 1‑0 against Beitar Jerusalem, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Christian Kouamé stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.99 on the card, and the Maccabi Tel Aviv support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Denny Gropper

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief