Maccabi Netanya

Israeli Premier League
15 Nov 2026
Sunday
Process
15 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Both of them Marcos Echeverría's — 9.04

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.04, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Squad

Aziz Ouattara 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 Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Maccabi Netanya find a way past Hapoel Acre

Hapoel Acre made Maccabi Netanya work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Saba Khvadagiani falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We controlled it. There were spells I did not like and we will look at them, but the group showed me something.” Amit Cohen, on a 2‑1 win that he was already picking apart on the walk to the press room.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Tomer Zarfati

“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.

Looking ahead

Dor Hugi goes back to face Hapoel Raanana

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dor Hugi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maccabi Netanya needing him to play as if none of it matters.

Player ratings

Maxim Plakushchenko beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 11. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

The dugout

When it matters, Saher Taji 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.

In brief

Back issues
14 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Dolev Haziza was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Marcos Echeverría 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 Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The terraces

Maccabi Netanya supporters have found a favourite in Marcos Echeverría

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Marcos Echeverría has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Boardroom

115% of the income goes out in wages at Maccabi Netanya

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Marcos Echeverría

7.91, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Maccabi Netanya had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad

A row about effort at Maccabi Netanya

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oz Bilu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Marcos Echeverría rescues a point for Maccabi Netanya

It needed Marcos Echeverría to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Hapoel Beer Sheva, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Amit Cohen: “We have to be better”

“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.

Looking ahead

Alon Azugi faces his old club

Hapoel Acre next, and one man in the Maccabi Netanya dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

  • The dugout When it matters, Itai Ben-Shabat plays
  • Squad Samu moves up the pecking order
  • The dugout No place in the plan for Oz Bilu
13 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Samu keeps Maccabi Netanya in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Netanya

Marcos Echeverría 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.

Match

Maccabi Netanya come up short against Hapoel Tel Aviv

Hapoel Tel Aviv left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saba Khvadagiani 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.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Maccabi Netanya

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Aziz Ouattara's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Amit Cohen faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amit Cohen after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Wylan Cyprien

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

Player ratings

Aziz Ouattara could not find anything

5.01. Every footballer has these and most of them happen away from a full ground; his did not, and he will be aware of that all week.

In brief

12 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Marcos Echeverría scores twice — 9.39

Two goals and a mark of 9.39 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at Maccabi Netanya

Marcos Echeverría and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Match

Maccabi Netanya find a way past Bnei Yehuda

Bnei Yehuda made Maccabi Netanya work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

One of those days for Matheus Davó

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.41, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saba Khvadagiani 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.

The dugout

Amit Cohen has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Amit Cohen on a 3‑1 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

The dugout

No hiding place for Oz Bilu

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Oz Bilu, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Li On Mizrahi

Successful dribbles: 14. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Nadav Niddam has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Maccabi Netanya lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

11 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Samu

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Player ratings

Both of them Matheus Davó's — 8.84

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.84, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A defender's goal wins it for Maccabi Netanya — 7.32

1 for Nadav Niddam, marked 7.32, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad

Aziz Ouattara 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 Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The step up is real for Tomer Zarfati

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match

Maccabi Tel Aviv take the points off Maccabi Netanya

Beaten 3‑4, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Maccabi Netanya and Maccabi Tel Aviv in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Player ratings

The game went through Marcos Echeverría — 6.87

Marked 6.87 on 13 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.

Squad

A late step up for Samu

At 27 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

In brief

10 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Maccabi Netanya run riot against Bnei Sakhnin

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

Marcos Echeverría scores twice — 9.32

Two goals and a mark of 9.32 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Samu stands alone

7 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Match

Maccabi Netanya make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Maccabi Netanya have 3 straight wins of it.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Netanya

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

Boardroom

139% of the income goes out in wages at Maccabi Netanya

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Matheus Davó

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.38, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

Dor Hugi beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 18. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saba Khvadagiani 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.

In brief

9 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Saher Taji sends Maccabi Netanya through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Saher Taji obliged against Bnei Yehuda. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Maccabi Netanya.

Player ratings

Dolev Haziza runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Aziz Ouattara pops up at the right end — 7.89

7.89, 1 on the scoresheet, and the specific comedy of a back-four player celebrating like somebody who does this every week. He does not, and that is exactly why the ground reacted the way it did.

Squad

Words exchanged at Maccabi Netanya

Aziz Ouattara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

Denis Kulikov is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 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 terraces

One of their own: Marcos Echeverría

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Maccabi Netanya see off Hapoel Kiryat Shmona

Three points for Maccabi Netanya, 1‑0 the final word against Hapoel Kiryat Shmona in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Saba Khvadagiani 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.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Saher Taji at his very best

Marked 8.06. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Maccabi Netanya.

In brief

8 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

4 matches without a win for Maccabi Netanya

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Maccabi Netanya are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Netanya

Aziz Ouattara 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.

Player ratings

Matheus Davó beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 20. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Words at Maccabi Netanya training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oz Bilu 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.

Match

Marcos Echeverría rescues a point for Maccabi Netanya

It needed Marcos Echeverría to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Beitar Jerusalem, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

The dugout

Amit Cohen on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Amit Cohen after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

The dugout

Nadav Niddam asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Nadav Niddam faces his old club

Hapoel Kiryat Shmona next, and one man in the Maccabi Netanya dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

The dugout

No place in the plan for Saba Khvadagiani

The manager wanted a different profile for this opponent, which is a real football reason and no consolation. He did nothing wrong and he did not play.

In brief

7 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Samu

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Netanya

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

Squad

A row about effort at Maccabi Netanya

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Saba Khvadagiani was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Li On Mizrahi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Pedrinho

“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.

Match

Maccabi Netanya and Hapoel Haifa take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Amit Cohen chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

Squad

Marcos Echeverría scores his first for Maccabi Netanya

The one goal every signing is asked about until it comes. It has come, and a press-conference question has been retired.

Looking ahead

Dor Hugi goes back to face Beitar Jerusalem

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dor Hugi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maccabi Netanya needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

6 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Deadline passes with 15 signed and 1 gone

That is the business done at Maccabi Netanya until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Market

Maccabi Netanya say no — this time

The offer from Maccabi Petach Tikva for Denis Kulikov 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.

Squad

Marcos Echeverría 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 Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Netanya rebuffed over Luciano Riveros

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. San Martín SJ have kept their man, and Maccabi Netanya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Amit Cohen

Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Saba Khvadagiani falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Matheus Davó

A mark of 7.80, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

Squad

International break empties Maccabi Netanya

4 call-ups is a compliment to the squad and a headache for the man running it. He will get them back in a fortnight, tired, in various states of repair.

Squad

Marcos Echeverría 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 Netanya will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

In brief

5 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Flamengo tell Maccabi Netanya: Joaquín Freitas 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.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Netanya

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

Match

Maccabi Petach Tikva take the points off Maccabi Netanya

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

The dugout

Dolev Haziza 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.

Market

Denis Kulikov attracts admirers

The name of Denis Kulikov has come up in conversations Maccabi Netanya were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Maccabi Netanya

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Dolev Haziza's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

The dugout

Amit Cohen faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Amit Cohen after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Player ratings

One moment undoes Dolev Haziza

There was one mistake and it ended in the net. Defenders are judged on the worst thing they did rather than on the eighty-nine minutes either side of it, which is unfair and is also the job.

In brief

4 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Maccabi Netanya baulk at the price for Johnbosco Samuel Kalu

Beitar Jerusalem wanted more than $2.6M and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Squad

Tempers go at Maccabi Netanya

Aziz Ouattara 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.

Transfer targets

Persik tell Maccabi Netanya: José Enrique 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.

Squad

Saba Khvadagiani falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Boardroom

Maccabi Netanya say no to the training-ground money

The plan went upstairs and came back down. Nothing about that will make a headline anywhere else, and everybody who works at the training ground will remember it for years.

Looking ahead

Dor Hugi goes back to face Maccabi Petach Tikva

Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Dor Hugi’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and Maccabi Netanya needing him to play as if none of it matters.

In brief

3 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maccabi Netanya say no — this time

The offer from Hapoel Beer Sheva for Li On Mizrahi 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.

The terraces

Maccabi Netanya sell a favourite for $1.3M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Karem Jaber was one of the reasons people came, and $1.3M does not replace that by itself.

Transfer targets

An offer of $2.6M for Johnbosco Samuel Kalu

Maccabi Netanya have gone to Beitar Jerusalem 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.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Netanya rebuffed over Cédric Don

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Maccabi Haifa have kept their man, and Maccabi Netanya go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Market

Maccabi Netanya sell Karem Jaber for $1.3M

Karem Jaber has left for Maccabi Tel Aviv in a $1.3M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Aziz Ouattara 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 Netanya this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

2 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Maccabi Netanya turn down Hapoel Beer Sheva for Matheus Davó

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets

Estudiantes tell Maccabi Netanya: Martín Garnerone 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.

Squad

Words exchanged at Maccabi Netanya

Aziz Ouattara and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Market

One of our own: Lior David joins the Maccabi Netanya first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Lior David is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Avi Benayoun joins the Maccabi Netanya first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Avi Benayoun is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Shon Atzili steps up from the Maccabi Netanya academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Shon Atzili 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.

Squad

Nadav Niddam falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Karem Jaber

“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.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Fernando Braga is in the works

Maccabi Netanya have made the call to Cortulua. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

In brief

1 Edition

The Maccabi Netanya Post

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Aziz Ouattara signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Aziz Ouattara commits to Maccabi Netanya for another 4 years.

Squad

A falling-out at Maccabi Netanya

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

Transfer targets

Barracas Central tell Maccabi Netanya: Jhonatan Candia 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

Eyes on Saher Taji again

The phone has started ringing about Saher Taji again, and this time the name on the line is Hapoel Kfar Saba. Maccabi Netanya are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Saba Khvadagiani falls out with a teammate over standards

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.

Market

Talks stall between Maccabi Netanya and Wylan Cyprien

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

49 months and counting on Aziz Ouattara

Still no offer on the table, and Aziz Ouattara’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

Squad

8 new faces, and Maccabi Netanya 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.

Transfer targets

Maccabi Netanya try to borrow Marcos Echeverría

Temperley 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.

In brief