The Hapoel Raanana Post
Match16 Sep 2028
The wait goes on for Hapoel Raanana
14 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Miko Maman
95 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Raanana lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Transfer targets18 Sep 2028
Don-Pedro Samuel turns down Hapoel Raanana
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Estoril Praia keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Words exchanged at Hapoel Raanana
Ofek Biton and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Real improvement from Guy Reich at Hapoel Raanana
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Guy Reich is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Yoav Hofmeister 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.
Boardroom18 Sep 2028
Wages eat 174% of everything Hapoel Raanana earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Market18 Sep 2028
Matan Revivo steps up from the Hapoel Raanana academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matan Revivo has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market18 Sep 2028
One of our own: Ofir Solomon joins the Hapoel Raanana first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ofir Solomon is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Hapoel Raanana promote Guy Levy from within
- Market Eden Refaelov steps up from the Hapoel Raanana academy
- The dugout No hiding place for Tarek Boshnak