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Flourish the wilderness: this is how Hapoel Beer Sheva got back on its feet

At the height of the Corona crisis, the transfer of Beer Sheva's budget seemed impossible. But then the "butcher" Junger cut the meat, Rahamim and Ben Zeev gave the players hope, and even Barak Bachar helped - until the club rose again. Now there is only one task left on the way back to the top of Israeli football: to find a buyer

• Hapoel Beer Sheva
• Yossi Aboksis

Yaniv Tuchman

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A short WhatsApp announcement sent this week to journalists covering Hapoel Beer Sheva regarding the termination of the position of lawyer Yitzhak Junger at the club, taught that even before the Premier League opened, Hapoel Beer Sheva had already achieved a significant goal - submitting the budget for the upcoming season and full approval. Four months ago, at the height of the first corona wave and when the tsunami created by Alona Barkat's departure reached the shore, the club's future was about as foggy as finding the vaccine for the virus that paralyzed the world. Meeting this goal seemed like an impossible task.

The total commitments for the coming season and the total budget were then tens of percent larger than Hapoel Beer Sheva could afford, despite the NIS 5 million safety net promised by Alona Barkat and despite the NIS 8 million that were supposed to enter the club's coffers from Hatem Abdelhamid, Eden Shamir, Michael Ohana And David Keltins.

Hiring the services of attorney Junger was meant to cut through the flesh and his early days in office, angered the team players. But this was the mission of the so-called "slaughterer" in several media outlets. Later, the chairman joined me, Ben Zeev, who came voluntarily and he also assisted CEO Asi Rahamim. The two sat for long days on the numbers and last week the process was completed. Rahamim gave the players the hope that the current cut will serve them in the future, and they trust him. The business made it clear that there are those on the horizon who will take Hapoel Beer Sheva to the forgotten districts.

Hapoel Beer Sheva has controlled a budget of NIS 35 million. This is a cut of almost 50 percent when the original budget - with all commitments - was NIS 65 million, if not There was coverage without full involvement of Alona Barkat. The original NIS 65 million budget contained NIS 40 million in players 'salaries and NIS 25 million distributed to the coaching, medical, administrative, management, logistics and youth departments. After the dramatic streamlining process, the players' salaries decreased from NIS 40 million to NIS 20 million and the cost of all surrounding operations decreased from NIS 25 million to NIS 15 million.

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In the budget that has already been approved by the control, there is room to add two more foreign players at a cost of NIS 1.5 million. Contact Marcelo Mali is a candidate and there is another player on the agenda. All in all, Hapoel Beer Sheva are striving to have their foreign quota full in all six, after striker Jonathan Agudello signed and joined Miguel Vitor, Elton Acultasa and Jozua.

Hapoel Beer Sheva received many blows apart from Barkat's big bomb. Turning Turner off until further notice due to roof problems, and the departure of the main sponsor "Tadiran" with its leader and team fan Moshe Mamrod, are additions that greatly hurt the day-to-day operations. But on the other hand, of course, were the extensive cuts made by the players, Barak Bachar's waiver of a significant part of his contract and the safety net given by the state due to a lack of crowds.

There is no doubt that the players' support for the painful cut alongside the departure of Ben Shehar, Nigel Hasselbaink and Ben Bitton, who held very heavy contracts, formed the main pillar on the way to achieving the goal. Be'er Sheva is currently working on finding a main sponsor and is in contact with several parties who are willing to enter. The 2 million shekels that Hapoel Beer Sheva received from Tadiran will no longer be there, but Beer Sheva will not compromise on less than a million shekels and there are already negotiations with one serious person, so that in the end Hapoel Beer Sheva will have a new and new sponsor.

The Champions League games did not really teach about what Hapoel Beer Sheva has to sell in the opening season. The isolation of the foreign players and the late arrival of Cynthiahu Sallich, damaged the preparation of the team, which only at the beginning of last week went to a short training camp in Ashkelon. These are not just the players who did not play in the games against Maccabi Tel Aviv and not the personal contribution of each of them - Hapoel Beer Sheva are convinced that the players who were absent will also raise the level of the others who were not seen in the direction against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The coming season will be mainly a transition season at Hapoel Beer Sheva. The main goal is to preserve the brand built during the glorious championship years. It is true that with Yossi Aboksis as coach, with one of the highest budgets in the league and a combination of quality foreigners and some top Israelis, Hapoel Beer Sheva must be part of the leading quartet, but few in the club are optimistic and fantasizing about a great season that will surprise Israeli football. If Barkat does not make a U-turn at the end and stays despite everything she has said so far, the really important task is to find the next buyer. The landlord who knows how to keep Hapoel Beer Sheva at the top of Israeli football, and return the club to a real battle for championship plates.

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