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Today, two years ago, Maccabi Tel Aviv announced the departure of Ben Mansford, and since then it has not appointed a CEO with professional powers. be glad


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Two years have passed and here it is left behind: Maccabi Tel Aviv needs a real GM

Today, two years ago, Maccabi Tel Aviv announced the departure of Ben Mansford, and since then it has not appointed a CEO with professional powers. be glad

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  • Patrick Van Leven

  • Mitch Goldhaar

  • Bnei Lem

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Sunday, October 17, 2021, 1:00 p.m.

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There are a lot of symbolic moments in football, but there are also moments that are more than that. The 62nd minute yesterday in Netanya was not symbolic, it was cosmic. Parfa Gagagon got the ball, poked it into Daniel Peretz's net and completed an incredible turnaround within two minutes. For Maccabi Tel Aviv it was a game, a set, a match, for the game and maybe for the whole season, but for Maccabi Tel Aviv it was also the hope for the coming seasons. Because Gyagon, who was an actor-actor in his youth and also showed nationally player-actor sparks, really looks like the next thing right now. And lucky for her that she has the next thing, because Maccabi Tel Aviv has no reason to be proud of the current thing.



It may even be better for the runner-up at the moment that Gyagon, who came to Maccabi Netanya in the Gabi Kanikovsky deal, will graze in foreign fields. Not just because of the rubbing, but to stay away from sandy pastures like the impact of the current season. Maccabi Tel Aviv is depressed, off, looks like an arid desert, and under such conditions even talents with huge potential like Gyagon cannot flourish.



Here the question arises as to who bears the main responsibility for this situation - Mitch Goldhaar, Patrick Van Leven or the actors.

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The answer, to me, is not clear at all. Goldhaar's strategy of dictating procurement policy according to European achievements has been proven in the past to be doomed to failure, and the insulting achievements at the start of the current season only prove once again that this line simply does not work. Exactly today two years ago the owner announced that Ben Mansford is leaving the club. In these two years, Maccabi Tel Aviv does not have significant professional authority over the coach, a CEO with real capabilities from GM. It is hard not to see the connection between the managerial vacuum and achievements on the field.



But there is nothing in the policies and disconnections that often characterize Goldhaar to absolve the coach of responsibility. In recent years, Maccabi Tel Aviv has grown a generation that was supposed to be a golden age of home players - Matan Hozaz, Elon Almog, Eden Kartzev and Eduardo Guerrero are the prominent names. Van Leven was the man under whom they were nurtured in the youth department. Which of them progressed under him in the seniors? Kartzev, in my opinion a huge miss, was sold to Maccabi Netanya. Sandalwood showed sparks at the beginning of the road but does not stop going backwards and fading away. Hozaz, who began to flourish under Ivica, is probably not that and Guerrero was the only one to take a step forward. Even in his case it seems at the moment that he will be accompanied by two steps back.



Van Leven's contribution to Maccabi Tel Aviv is almost nil. It can be argued that the staff is not good enough and that the team did not have time to connect, but the job of a coach is to get the maximum out of the players, and at Maccabi Tel Aviv no one is currently giving the maximum, except, perhaps, for the "original" breakout.As a striker with an excellent one-touch extension.

When she was a senior managerial figure everything looked different.

Maccabi Tel Aviv players leave Mansford at the end of October 2019 (Photo: Berni Ardov)

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And there are also the actors themselves. The question of the "what if" is asked. Suppose another coach comes to Maccabi Tel Aviv - is he able to turn Dan Glazer into a player he was before 2021? Can he spend more than Lewis "Look what long outs I have" Hernandez? May be, but at the present point in time it is a large collection of players who give far less than they can or want, and the blame is first and foremost on them.



There are those who claim that the players do sabotage to the coach at all, but what is sabotage? How can it be quantified? When do you lose on purpose and when does it just happen that the team is bad and untrained? In general, does a player who goes up on the grass really want to lose? Even the team that made the biggest "sabotage" in the club's history, the 10: 0 in Haifa in 1988, won the state cup a month later.



Given all these questions and problems, what goal does Maccabi Tel Aviv even want to achieve?

There will be no championship this season, and this can be said with almost complete confidence already after six rounds.

Will Goldhaar settle for a ticket to Europe?

Maybe, just that from the basements of ninth place (and maybe below that after tonight's games and tomorrow) it's impossible at the moment to even fantasize about it.

So what is it about?

And what is the role of the players in the fiasco?

(Photo: Bernie Ardov)

Lots of compliments short Benny Lem after last night's victory. One can understand his burst of emotions on the lines (in a boxed article - I wonder what Guy Luzon would have snatched up on this show). After two weeks of anticipation and preparation, it was time for him and the fans to release the pressure. What is it to release? As they would say in the eighties, "the yellow volcano exploded."



This morning Lem will descend back to the ground. He will analyze the game, see how Raz Shlomo does not stop devoting himself to the opponent, will understand again how lucky he was not to go down to the half with a 3-0 deficit, thank God and the opponent's coach, not necessarily in that order, for particularly poor management of the game in the second half. He knows that the situation in the Premier League is extremely fluid. Just two rounds ago, Maccabi Netanya had two points and two right goals. Suddenly she is with eight points and a 9: 9 goal balance.



Lem will probably tell himself and the media that "these are only three points," but the truth is that this victory is worth a lot more to him.

It's not even a matter of momentum, it's simple logic.

The next Monday he meets Maccabi Haifa, then hosts Hapoel Beer Sheva.

On paper he could have been 0-of-9 in his first three games.

All the glamor and romance from the exciting comeback to his youth group was gone, the pressure was great.

Now at least he has breathing space and also confidence that can, perhaps, lead to surprise.

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A win worth well over three points.

Lem (Photo: Bernie Ardov)

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Ashdod was a fantastic season last year, at least in its terms.

Third place, although far from the first two, but with some resounding points, such as home victories over Maccabi Haifa and Maccabi Tel Aviv and two victories in Beer Sheva.



None of this remains.

Six rounds have passed, and Ashdod is deep in the bottom of the table with a single win and five losses.

As in any team, here too the coach can be blamed, but in this case I do not think Sharan Ben Shimon is the story, although, of course, he has played a big part in the failure so far.

Too many problems.

Cvetkovich in a typical pose this year, yesterday in Ashdod (Photo: Liron Moldovan)

At least in terms of its level of attractiveness, Ashdod is not one of the first tier groups, not even the second.

When its players become free or on the way to becoming free, it can not compete with Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel Beer Sheva and even with Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Dean David, for example, sought to move forward and the million euros that the club received in return from Maccabi Haifa cannot be dismissed.

It turned out that the key players who led Ashdod to one of the best seasons in its history are no longer there.



So what did we get instead of David, Shlomi Azulai, Roi Gordana and Ramzi Spori?

Martin Rainov (who was released almost immediately), Matausinio, Gal Katabi, Orr Inbrom and others who are trying to complete the puzzle.

The hope in Ashdod was that Ben Shimon would know how to connect the staff, but for now it is not working.

The question now is when it will work.

Ashdod is now waiting for the "holy trinity" that falls in the share of Premier League teams - Maccabi Tel Aviv, Maccabi Haifa and Beer Sheva in a row.

Anyone willing to bet that in early November it will look better?

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