The emotion above all: the reasons and consequences of Tomer Ginat's choice at Hapoel Tel Aviv

The mask of pressure from the crowd that caused him to delete Twitter, the reminders from the Reds about players whose careers crashed in yellow, and the love that left him no choice: this is how the forward's decision on the comeback was born, while covering himself for the club and soaring expectations.

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20/06/2022

Monday, June 20, 2022, 7:30 p.m.

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Less than an hour before Tomer Ginat announced to Hapoel Tel Aviv, followed by Maccabi Tel Aviv, that he had decided to choose the Reds over the Yellows, neither of the two teams could have guessed that it would end this way.

At Hapoel, there were those who seriously considered the possible candidates for the forward, while at Maccabi some of the team members already saw Ginat as the first Israeli reinforcement player this summer: "He will be ours," said one of the team members with confidence.

But shortly afterwards, the Yellows are already calling the garden "Bar Timor II", after the forward chose to turn his back on Maccabi at the last minute, just as his good friend did five years ago.

Timor did it more dramatically, after already agreeing to come to Maccabi and then returned and stayed at Hapoel Jerusalem, but Ginat is perhaps considered a bigger surprise, since when it comes to the financial aspect, he chose an offer that is about $ 150,000 per season to stay at the club he is a fan of.

"During one he entered the list of the greatest,"

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Rami Cohen said goodbye to the end of the previous term (Photo: Danny Maron)

Even before Maccabi Tel Aviv got involved, somewhere at the beginning of the season that had just ended, Ginat began sending messages to Hapoel Tel Aviv that he was interested in returning.

While those around him talked about upgrading in Europe, he kept in touch with all the members of the team, and told how much he misses and wants to return.

In practice they heard and waited for the summer.

They knew they were going to storm.

The entry of Maccabi Tel Aviv into the picture caused Hapoel Tel Aviv to move to the second stage when it comes to attempts to bring back Ginat: not only a monstrous contract on the scale of the Red Club, but also beyond detailing the player's soul with messages and songs from fans on Twitter.

Ginat's response was not long in coming.

According to his associates, he deleted the app that did not stop alerting him about another message and another message in which he was tagged.

This weekend he met with Oded Katash, and heard about Maccabi Tel Aviv's plans for him as well.

One of his acquaintances said last week that Ginat greatly appreciates Katsh professionally, and although the coach gave him a place in the Israeli national team quintet, the forward also did not forget his dismissal from the squad during 2020. His during the Yellows' press conference yesterday, that "the role of Maccabi Tel Aviv is not to solve all the problems of Israeli basketball," she also did not add.

As part of the same pressure mask, Hapoel Tel Aviv people reminded Ginat of some of the basketball players who came to Maccabi Tel Aviv at the height of their careers, and not only did they not get drunk at the same level afterwards, but most of them also crashed significantly, with Kerem Mashur coming back Two great years in Bnei Herzliya, and since then it has been difficult to recover from the traumatic season he experienced in the Yellows.

In addition, the Reds' entry into the EuroCup on Thursday contributed to the selection.

"In the end, Tomer's love for Hapoel won," says one of his friends today. sit".

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Tomer Ginat's contract will be the heaviest at Hapoel Tel Aviv next season, with the Reds estimating that most of its cost, which is estimated at around NIS 1.2 million a year, will be completed by the team through the sale of subscriptions.

Hapoel expects to sell about 1,000 more subscribers than they planned in advance, which will bring in about a million shekels to the club's coffers, and for the first time since it was re-established - all the subscriptions to Drive-In will be sold.

The remaining amounts are estimated by the Reds to be raised through sponsors.

Hapoel Tel Aviv will soon start a campaign to sell subscriptions to the EuroCup as well, where it is guaranteed nine home games that are not included in the subscription currently offered for sale.

Hapoel also expects a significant number of subscribers in Europe, which will help them cover the move, for which they will not receive money from the league director who does not reward teams participating in the EuroCup.

And apart from the money that will go into the club, another thing that will come up in the context of Hapoel Tel Aviv is the threshold of expectations.

The Reds now have three of the best Israelis in the local league - Bar Timor, Tomer Ginat and Idan Zalmanson, along with a young and talented group that includes Gil Benny, Raz Adam and Lotan Amsalem, a youth team that reached the final of the national championship, as well as two proven foreigners, in the form of C Jacob Brown and JP Tokoto.

With this squad, the Reds will not settle for less than a title fight next season.

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