Who stays, who goes, who swings • After winning the 54th championship in its history, Maccabi Tel Aviv is planning "• 20/21 Israel Today" with a snapshot

• Maccabi players are celebrating, yesterday at the Heichal

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  Alan Shiver

Already on the day after the victory dance of the chairman Shimon Mizrahi, who arrived following the 54th victory in the state championship, Maccabi Tel Aviv is organizing for the 2020/21 season and hopes to complete the construction of the team as soon as possible. "Israel Today" brings you the initial picture of the yellow squad.

Scotty Wilbkin, Othello Hunter, Yuval Sussman, Omri Caspi (returned this week to train with a ball) and Sandy Cohen have signed contracts for next season. Also, Elijah Bryant, Tyler Dorsey and Angelo Cloiaro agreed to stay. Captain John Dibertolomeo, who is recovering from injury, is set to sign a new contract, and in recent days the option to leave Amara Studmeier has also come up.

And what about the leavers and swingers? Jake Cohen will not continue for good and will probably move to play in the Spanish league, after a significant financial dispute. Disagreements also exist with Quincy Acey. Coach Yannis Sapropoulos is very interested in keeping the tough forward next season as well, but the team wants him to lower his salary a little, which stands at about $ 700,000. Currently, Acey refuses to do so. The team has already started looking for possible replacements for the position.

New faces are also expected to arrive near Elijah. Guardsman Chris Jones of Bursaspor has closed his terms for a salary of $ 350,000, and is expected to replace Knight Walters. As we first reported in "Israel Today", the champion is negotiating with Zack Hankins from Maccabi Rishon LeZion, who may replace Tariq Black. Additional candidates are already in the books of the professional team.