Hozaz God forbid: the crossroads of Matan Hozaz and Muhammad Abu Fani - Walla! sport

2021-08-31T07:50:59.793Z

Was Matan Hozaz's early replacement the first sign of a possible departure from Maccabi Tel Aviv? And who will blink first in the battle between Maccabi Haifa and its connection? With both players in the final year of the contract, a lot of dilemmas and complexities arise. Different but also similar cases, with a bridge named Kartzev

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Hozaz God forbid: the crossroads of Matan Hozaz and Muhammad Abu Fani

Was Matan Hozaz's early replacement the first sign of a possible departure from Maccabi Tel Aviv?

And who will blink first in the battle between Maccabi Haifa and its connection?

With both players in the final year of the contract, a lot of dilemmas and complexities arise.

Different but also similar cases, with a bridge named Kartzev

Found a winger: Maccabi Tel Aviv defeats Brandley Kwas

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The direction looks bad.

Sharan Yeni reprimands Hazaz in Sakhnin (Photo: Maor Elkelsi)

Of course, it is impossible to close the door on the season of Maccabi Tel Aviv and that of Hozaz even before it began. A lot of things can happen - the right purchase that is yet to come, a series of victories, stumbles by Maccabi Haifa and Beer Sheva - and you will know what else. There have already been players who were considered burnt (and Huzz is still far from burnt) at their club and have made a tremendous comeback. But we must look at reality: nothing is currently playing in favor of Maccabi Tel Aviv, certainly not in favor of Hozaz. The summer was terrible, there was no progress in ability, the skeleton was shaky, the motivation did not increase. This is true both at the team level and at the player level itself.

He has already been loaned out to Hapoel Haifa, Ashkelon and Bnei Yehuda three times. If at the beginning of the Goldhaar era the question was a sentence for the products of the youth department of Maccabi Tel Aviv, these laws have completely changed in recent years and received another boost due to the limitations of fair play. Yonatan Cohen, Dan Glazer, Dor Peretz, Elon Almog, Ruslan Bersky, Eden Kartzev and more - all went into exile to go back and try to be a screw in the powerful machine. The idea is that Maccabi Tel Aviv will have circulation, a wide range of talents that will overlap in case of failure. It is not for nothing that she invests tens of millions of shekels in the youth department. It is taken into account that the success rates will not necessarily be high, but one burst generation on seven flops returns the investment.

Hozaz's contract is valid until 2022. Maccabi Tel Aviv want to extend it so as not to let him become a free agent at the end of the season. I guess there are people inside and outside the club who still believe in him, the talent has not gone anywhere. The question is what will be the impact of the substitution in Sakhnin, which came in the midst of a steep decline in capacity and less than a day later came the addition of Brandly Kwas. The relationship between Hozaz and coach Patrick Van Leven, it can be guessed, is not the most normal today. It could be that Hazzaz needs this shaking, he has not looked good for a long time. It could also be that his relationship with the coach has no resurrection. The upcoming rounds will say quite a bit about the status of the two at the club, and not just this season.

The main reason for the pressure that Maccabi Tel Aviv puts on Eden Kartzev to move to Maccabi Netanya is that he, like Hozaz, is in his final season and the club wants to avoid the Dor Peretz incident at all costs.

Kartzev has followed a path almost identical to that of Hozaz - Betar Tel Aviv Bat Yam, the loan, return to the club, anticipation of a great future. So far his graph of progress has not been impressive. Another from the youth department will soon find himself out.

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Another great potential that is lost.

Kartsev (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

It does not only happen at Maccabi Tel Aviv. In Maccabi Haifa, too, it is customary for players to sign long-term contracts, among other things so that they have a bargaining chip on the terms of release. This is true and legitimate, only in the case of Muhammad Abu Fani it does not work, at least for now.

Two weeks before the end of last season, Shlomo Weiss published a news item here that Abu Fani made it clear to Maccabi Haifa that he has no intention of staying at the club after the end of his contract, which expires at the end of 2021/22. The club took these statements lightly, with a great deal of justice. After all, they were still fighting for the championship, a long summer was ahead of them. Abu Fani will wait. But as time went on, they realized that the business was serious. Abu Fani fortified himself in his position and did not move from it. Yesterday this has already become a real problem.

So what do we have here?

The club appears predatory, ostensibly, by gifting the participation of a key player in the squad with a re-signing, but in today's reality, where paper has no real value and players demand release even when they are under contract, Maccabi Haifa wants to insure itself.

In the end there is a pressure lever here: Sign?

Play.

Will not sign?

Sit aside and your value will go down.

Sounds dirty, but keep in mind that everyone on the whole is attracted to a position that is comfortable for him.

Maccabi Haifa threatened Abu Fani that "he must sign a new contract or there will be consequences."

The first one we saw in the game against Hapoel Hadera, it affected both the team and the player.

The champion needs the tie to crack defenses and add a serious dimension of threat on goal.

Last night he did not even have it from the bench.

Abu Fani, for his part, will have a hard time getting back into playing shape and getting into the rhythm as the days go by.

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