The Bnei Sakhnin Gazette
Squad11 Jun 2035
The knee: Roey Elimelech out for 35 days
35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Bnei Sakhnin lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Itay Ben-Hemo breaks a bone — 135 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 135 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Transfer targets11 Jun 2035
Adi Yona is a medical away from Bnei Sakhnin
The deal with Hapoel Beer Sheva is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad11 Jun 2035
A falling-out at Bnei Sakhnin
Nana Paintsil and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad11 Jun 2035
Noah Shamoun 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.
Market11 Jun 2035
One of our own: Itay Natcho joins the Bnei Sakhnin first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Itay Natcho is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market11 Jun 2035
Sagiv Peretz steps up from the Bnei Sakhnin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sagiv Peretz 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.
Market11 Jun 2035
Bnei Sakhnin promote Ben Glazer from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ben Glazer has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market11 Jun 2035
Eitan Solomon steps up from the Bnei Sakhnin academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Eitan Solomon 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.
In brief
- The dugout Noah Shamoun asks for a word with the manager
- Boardroom Bnei Sakhnin can only buy what they sell
- The dugout Tomer Abada gets it from the manager