The Beitar Jerusalem Gazette
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
A brace, and Yarden Shua takes the afternoon — 8.87
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Yarden Shua provided it, and the 8.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
Market7 Feb 2028
Abba Musa asks to leave Beitar Jerusalem
“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.
Player ratings7 Feb 2028
Vintage Omer Atzili — 7.83
At 34 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.83, and nobody on the pitch better.
Boardroom7 Feb 2028
Deadline passes with 0 signed and 2 gone
That is the business done at Beitar Jerusalem until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Words exchanged at Beitar Jerusalem
Pierre Cornud 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.
Match5 Feb 2028
Beitar Jerusalem find a way past Hapoel Raanana
Hapoel Raanana made Beitar Jerusalem work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Transfer targets7 Feb 2028
Beitar Jerusalem rebuffed over Diego García
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. PAOK have kept their man, and Beitar Jerusalem go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Feb 2028
Matan Abada out for 23 days
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Matan Abada, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout7 Feb 2028
Boris Enow left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Boris Enow will call it something else in private.
In brief
- The dugout The manager has not finished forgetting Pierre Cornud's mistake
- Squad Liran Shpigel makes the team of the month
- The dugout The view from the dugout