Hapoel Beer Sheva

Israeli Premier League
23 Aug 2026
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3 Edition

The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva bid $15.2M for Liel Abada

The offer went to Charlotte Football Club this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva rebuffed over Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. OH Leuven have kept their man, and Hapoel Beer Sheva go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Transfer targets

No deal for Gil Cohen at that price

Hapoel Beer Sheva offered $2.2M; Beitar Jerusalem said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.

Boardroom

Hapoel Beer Sheva go back to the board over Anas Mahamid

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $1.8M — a club that wants Anas Mahamid enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Oumar Diakité rejects the move

Hapoel Beer Sheva had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Stade de Reims, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Tempers go at Hapoel Beer Sheva

Djibril Diop 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.

Loan watch

7 goals on loan for Ofek Peretz

3 appearances at Saba and the goals keep coming. Hapoel Beer Sheva are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Squad

Stanley Nwabali still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Hapoel Beer Sheva would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

Squad

Stanley Nwabali has seen what the next man earns

Numbers do not stay secret in a dressing room and never have. He is not asking for more than he is worth; he is asking why somebody beside him is worth more, and at Hapoel Beer Sheva that is a harder question to answer.

In brief

Back issues
2 Edition

The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Amir Ganah agrees terms with Persija

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Hapoel Beer Sheva people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva bid $2.2M for Gil Cohen

The offer went to Beitar Jerusalem this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.3M for Anas Mahamid

Hapoel Beer Sheva have gone to Hapoel Tel Aviv with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Boardroom

Hapoel Beer Sheva go back to the board over Gil Cohen

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $2.4M — a club that wants Gil Cohen enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Hamode Kanaan stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Hamode Kanaan and Hapoel Beer Sheva agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

A falling-out at Hapoel Beer Sheva

Miguel Vítor and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Athletico Paranaense tell Hapoel Beer Sheva: Mycael is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Market

Hapoel Beer Sheva promote Tal Benayoun from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Tal Benayoun 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.

Market

Hapoel Beer Sheva promote Shon Revivo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shon Revivo 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.

In brief

1 Edition

The Hapoel Beer Sheva Gazette

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A career in one shirt: Miguel Vítor

10 seasons and 349 appearances, all of them here. Careers like this are not designed; they happen to a certain kind of man at a certain kind of club, and this town has one.

Squad

Lucas Ventura signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucas Ventura commits to Hapoel Beer Sheva for another 4 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Hapoel Beer Sheva

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.

Market

Amir Ganah attracts admirers

The name of Amir Ganah has come up in conversations Hapoel Beer Sheva were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Leandro Brey

Hapoel Beer Sheva asked and Boca Juniors said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market

Nobody at Hapoel Beer Sheva has picked up the phone to Lucas Ventura

49 months to run and not a word offered. A club that lets the calendar negotiate for it usually ends up losing to the calendar.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva ask about Oumar Diakité

A loan enquiry to Stade de Reims: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Transfer targets

Hapoel Beer Sheva try to borrow Nevot Ratner

Maccabi Haifa have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

5 new faces, and Hapoel Beer Sheva are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief