Miguel Vítor damages knee ligaments — 125 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.
2 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Hapoel Raanana the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Hapoel Beer Sheva will enjoy reviewing.
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Sebastián Cocimano provided it, and the 8.49 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The offer from Astana for Amir Ganah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
Dan Biton was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
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.
The name of Niv Yehoshua has come up in conversations Hapoel Beer Sheva were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
133 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Beer Sheva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Lucas Ventura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.
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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.
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sagiv Weissman 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.
144 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Hapoel Beer Sheva lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Niv Eliasi was one of the reasons people came, and $1.4M does not replace that by itself.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hapoel Beer Sheva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Igor Zlatanović 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.
Miguel Vítor damages knee ligaments — 153 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 153 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.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Sebastián Cocimano has just signed for Hapoel Beer Sheva, and for once the answer mattered.
This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $580.0K has been paid because Sebastián Cocimano is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Hapoel Beer Sheva this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Miguel Vítor damages knee ligaments — 162 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 162 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.
The offer from Bhayangkara Presisi for Amir Ganah was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.
333 appearances across 9 seasons in one shirt. Nobody builds a career like that on purpose any more; it happens to a certain kind of footballer at a certain kind of club.
Lucas Ventura was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Hapoel Beer Sheva, another week without a signature from Miguel Vítor.