Acknowledging the reality: Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Beer Sheva must make a big difference

Maccabi Tel Aviv is looking to return legionnaires, Beer Sheva still does not know what to look for.

Regardless of last night's game, Maccabi Haifa's quality differences between the two only increased and require a different way of thinking in the summer, especially because of the difficulty of finding quality players in Israel.

Ophir Saar

21/04/2022

Thursday, April 21, 2022, 3:00 p.m.

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Maccabi Tel Aviv - Hapoel Beer Sheva 3: 1 (State Cup semifinals) (Sports 1)

Hapoel Beer Sheva's victory over Maccabi Tel Aviv 1: 3 in the semifinals, and the option to take comfort in the cup in a season in which Maccabi Haifa will almost certainly win a second championship in a row, gives no indication of the future.

This game should serve as a mirror image for these two clubs, which while on paper compete with Maccabi Haifa, but professionally their quality differences from the Greens are huge and require significant changes next season in order to give a real fight.

True, after Maccabi Haifa completes a second championship, the mental decline we are so familiar with in the third year is expected.

There will be those who want to move forward and also the poison will suddenly float.

This was the case in the third championship season of Maccabi Tel Aviv and also of Beer Sheva, but fortunately for Maccabi Haifa, it had enough time to go through the process during the current season, with decreases in energy and a feeling that the championship was in the pocket that caused the damage.

Rest assured that Barak Bachar is already drawing conclusions during the current season, and the changes on the green side will be seen in the summer, when the team will try to make a facelift and strengthen and refresh in several positions, in order to be hungrier and sharper next season.

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He may return, but the risk of returning a legionnaire is not small.

Eli Desa (Photo: GettyImages, BSR Agency)

Maccabi Tel Aviv?

Her youth department does an amazing job and produces players, but as of today they are not tie-breakers or those who will bring a degree.

It is no coincidence that there is talk of the return of Eran Zehavi, talks with Dor Peretz and Eli Desa and more.

The team longs for quality players and also leaders on their way, so that there will be something to sell in front of Bachar & Co.

The equation is simple - there are no players from the Israeli league who can upgrade.

Foreigners can help, but it is difficult to find those who will attract the group (how many Charon Cherry manage to bring here?) And therefore go back to Israelis who have already done something here.

If the Shabbat Legionnaires do not succeed, which is a risk in itself because quite a few of them returned to Israel with other energies, especially when the options for progress and development become history, Maccabi Tel Aviv will have to stop and think.

It is not certain that next season she will be able to run strong for the championship, which is not a disaster.

Need quality and players who make a difference to win the championship, but without hunger and madness it is impossible.

If you go back to Vladan Ivic's first championship season, under the restrictions of fair play, there was no rival in the form of the current Maccabi Haifa.

Still, the changes forced by Fair Play and the team built into them along with an excellent coach have produced one of the most committed blends in the history of Israeli football.

There was talent in the team but not over talents, a reasonable quality that the hunger and daily stress in every training session pushed her to two championships.

It may be that the right thing for Maccabi Tel Aviv in the summer will be to go back and rebuild.

No matter with which coach, far beyond legionnaires or procurement, first of all understand which of the Israelis in the current staff has already exhausted himself and sat at the club, do a clean sweep of mediocrity that will no longer contribute unnecessarily and replace with new blood of returning loanees, raising number of players from youth team Players from the Israeli market and the purchase combination in the form of legionnaires and foreigners.

After two years without a championship, the pressure is bubbling, but it is precisely under this pressure that we need to stop and think about how to act correctly, even if returning to the championship fight will take another year.

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Commitment and hunger above all else.

Barda (Photo: Danny Maron)

And if Maccabi Tel Aviv wants to see a living example of impatience, it can look at the current Hapoel Beer Sheva, despite advancing to the finals.

The pressure from last summer to the championship and do everything here, now and as fast as possible, led to the addition of 15-16 players from every possible corner, most of them relatively older whose future is not ahead and without any thought for years to come, which created a team with experience that knows how to collect points .

So Aliniv Barda manages to squeeze a little more out of the team at the finish, but still, it's a team that not by chance the fans didn’t even buy all the tickets allotted to them for the semi-finals and left a lot of gaps in Turner throughout the season, and not by chance.

When Hapoel Beer Sheva decides on the identity of the coach in the summer, he will also tell his truth.

Football is first and foremost hunger and energy, and when next season will be signed 6-7 significant players over the age of 30 who are supposed to carry the team will return to the same situation.

Be'er Sheva will need a kind of young revolution.

Her problem is that she does not have too much of the local material, she has brought what is available from the Israeli market and reached the current situation, and free foreigners have not upgraded her too much.

Moreover, when going into such a kind of revolution, one needs patience.

It's a kind of rebuilding, with a new coach and a new way, someone who will come and present to the club management how the team is expected to develop over the next few years and what is the skeleton of the players that will run with it.

Everything else will bring Hapoel Beer Sheva back to the same loop of the current season, maybe it will be in the area but will not compete for the title, it will accumulate points but will have a hard time being attractive.

The trophy is always an option, but the pressure for an immediate championship will have to be relegated for the purpose of building and thinking a few years ahead, producing a base for the dynasty, otherwise what Beer Sheva achieved this year will be an achievement relative to next season.

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