The Hapoel Haifa Chronicle
Market10 Aug 2026
Hapoel Haifa say no — this time
The offer from Maccabi Haifa for Dario Župarić 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.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
No thanks: John Dembe rejects the move
Hapoel Haifa had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Sigma Olomouc, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Too dear: Hapoel Haifa walk away from Ramiro Ruiz Rodríguez
$410.0K was the most the club would pay and Atlético Tucumán were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
A falling-out at Hapoel Haifa
Willy Agada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Market10 Aug 2026
Liran Sardal comes home
The shirt still fits. Liran Sardal is back at Hapoel Haifa, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Market10 Aug 2026
Matan Melikson steps up from the Hapoel Haifa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Matan Melikson 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Dan David steps up from the Hapoel Haifa academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Dan David 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Hapoel Haifa are still strangers to each other
8 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Hapoel Haifa ask about Lautaro Torres
A loan enquiry to Temperley: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.
In brief
- Squad Shai Elias walks taller at Hapoel Haifa
- Squad A wage question at Hapoel Haifa