The Maccabi Petach Tikva Chronicle
Squad31 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Eitan Tibi
124 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Maccabi Petach Tikva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market31 Aug 2026
Yuval Kretzo puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Maccabi Petach Tikva, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match29 Aug 2026
Maccabi Petach Tikva find a way past Maccabi Netanya
Maccabi Netanya made Maccabi Petach Tikva work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Mohammed Hindi
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Franco Soldano 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 Petach Tikva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
The afternoon belonged to Samuel Owusu
A mark of 7.89, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Market31 Aug 2026
No place for Omer Shirazi in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Omer Shirazi has his answer from Maccabi Petach Tikva; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
Market31 Aug 2026
Hapoel Raanana expected to open talks for Eitan Melikson
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Maccabi Petach Tikva will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Samuel Owusu finally opens his account
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. Maccabi Petach Tikva have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
In brief
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Franck Rivollier
- Player ratings Omer Shirazi spends the afternoon fouling