Nigel Lonwijk

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42 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

17 May 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match17 May 2027

The view from the top for Maccabi Haifa

64 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Squad17 May 2027

Silva Kani signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Silva Kani commits to Maccabi Haifa for another 3 years.

Loan watch17 May 2027

10 goals on loan for Trivante Stewart

32 appearances at Gaziantep and the goals keep coming. Maccabi Haifa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

The dugout17 May 2027

When it matters, Omri Glazer plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market17 May 2027

The William question follows Maccabi Haifa around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with William’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout17 May 2027

The manager makes Silva Kani a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Maccabi Haifa. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Squad17 May 2027

A wage question at Maccabi Haifa

Silva Kani has done the arithmetic and does not like the answer. Nothing corrodes a squad faster, and no club has ever solved it by explaining the wage structure to a footballer.

The dugout17 May 2027

Omer Nir'on knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Omer Nir'on trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad17 May 2027

Nigel Lonwijk is settling

A few words of the language, a friend at the next peg, and a training ground that has stopped feeling foreign. Nothing measurable, and everything visible on Saturdays.

In brief

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34 Edition

The Maccabi Haifa Herald

22 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 Mar 2027

Nobody above Maccabi Haifa

First, on 64 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Salomão keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Maccabi Haifa may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

Kenji Gorré gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom22 Mar 2027

Wages eat 87% of everything Maccabi Haifa 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.

The dugout22 Mar 2027

When it matters, Omri Glazer plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market22 Mar 2027

The William talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Maccabi Haifa know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Loan watch22 Mar 2027

6 goals on loan for Trivante Stewart

26 appearances at Gaziantep and the goals keep coming. Maccabi Haifa are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Nigel Lonwijk has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Maccabi Haifa will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

Squad22 Mar 2027

Country calls for Peter Agba

He goes off to be somebody else’s player for a fortnight. Maccabi Haifa lose him for the window and would like him returned in the condition he left.

In brief