The Hapoel Tel Aviv Sentinel
Squad11 Feb 2036
Alain Zadi damages knee ligaments — 72 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 72 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Match9 Feb 2036
Hapoel Tel Aviv run riot against Maccabi Netanya
3‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.
Match11 Feb 2036
Hapoel Tel Aviv up to position 3
50 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.
Market11 Feb 2036
Zob Ahan come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hapoel Tel Aviv did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad11 Feb 2036
Gabriel Silva wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Hapoel Tel Aviv know it.
Squad11 Feb 2036
A falling-out at Hapoel Tel Aviv
Jovan Mijatović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market11 Feb 2036
As if he never left: Amir Kernif returns
Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Amir Kernif is a Hapoel Tel Aviv player again, and the town has its story of the summer.
Squad11 Feb 2036
A move Amir Kernif would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Amir Kernif is living that version at Hapoel Tel Aviv, and it tends to show in the first month.
Boardroom11 Feb 2036
Muhammadyusuf Sobirov will join Hapoel Tel Aviv for nothing
The paperwork is done long before the player is. Muhammadyusuf Sobirov has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Hapoel Tel Aviv have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Jovan Mijatović
- Player ratings Jovan Mijatović in the eights
- The dugout The team sheet said everything about Enguerrand Bouard