The Maccabi Haifa Herald
Squad15 Jul 2041
A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Wotlai
140 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maccabi Haifa lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Jul 2041
Hapoel Acre join the queue for Tomás Silva
Add another name to the list: Hapoel Acre have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Tomás Silva. The answer from Maccabi Haifa has not changed — yet.
Market15 Jul 2041
Only the photograph left for Lior Revivo
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Lior Revivo will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Maccabi Haifa the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad15 Jul 2041
Ilay Ben-Simon in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Maccabi Haifa this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad15 Jul 2041
Eitan David is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 20 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Squad15 Jul 2041
Words at Maccabi Haifa training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Nevot Ratner is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
In brief
- Market The Mansur Dil'murat conversation is coming
- Market No place for Mansur Dil'murat in the plan
- Boardroom Maccabi Haifa keep producing them
- Boardroom The Maccabi Haifa board put their names to it