Get out of this: Maccabi Tel Aviv's tangle with Oscar Gluch is just in her head

The rare breakout of the promising diamond has turned the hourglass on its way to sale, the bustle around it at the European Youth Championships will only grow with another show against Austria (18:30, Sport4), but instead of insisting as always the Yellows should understand they have a common interest, if only they understand their place The real food chain

Inbal Manor

22/06/2022

Wednesday, June 22, 2022, 12:00 p.m.

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Sharon Davidovich's article with Oscar Gluch (Sports 1)

In the third round of the top playoffs, with his team minus 10 points from Maccabi Haifa and with no real chance of winning the championship, Mladen Krastić pulled Oscar Gluch directly into the team in the game against the champion on the way.

"This is not a surprise," he slammed reporters at another of his semi-antipathetic press conferences.

"He's the best player in the youth. In our first part we dealt with and focused mainly on the first team, and now it's a good situation for him because he has quality and he will play."

In other words, for the Serb, the best time to discover a new talent is when there is no pressure and there is really nothing to play for.

Thus, Gluch became the Krastich legacy.

When you think about it, there's really nothing new here.

Small groups build young people to sell them.

Large teams share youngsters when it comes to mega-talent or when there is room to let them play.

The greats of Israeli football know how to raise players, but they have accustomed us in recent years that the opportunity comes only after slow cooking - youth, questions, a bench.

18-year-old players in the squad have become the domain of the minorities.

Hence the surprise on the subject of Gluch.

A surprise that intensified and put Maccabi Tel Aviv in a certain mess.

Gluch turned the hourglass.

How will the Yellows react?

More on Walla!

"Maccabi Tel Aviv will not discuss the sale of Oscar Gluch, it is worth at least 10 million euros"

To the full article

Made Gluch his legacy at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Mladen Krestic (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

Gluch is a rare talent, but mostly surprised with audacity and readiness.

He for a moment did not look or sound like one who has had eight Premier League appearances.

From his first minute in the seniors, he took it upon himself, played bravely, threatened, scored and impressed in technique and finish.

He did not need acclimatization and did not shy away from the class.

Of course, Maccabi Tel Aviv knew what they had in hand.

Gluch, like by the way the biggest stars of Israeli football from Eyal Berkovich, through Yossi Benyon to Manor Solomon and Liel Abda, was marked as a potential at a very young age and shone all the way up.

It's just that the Yellows' system is not programmed to throw water quickly.

"Maccabi Tel Aviv has an amazing youth department with a lot of advantages, but one of the disadvantages is the slow cooking with the rise to the seniors," Uri Ozen recently told Walla!

Sports in the context of Eden Kartzev.

Then Krastic came and did something that was almost never done with the Yellows in the Goldhaar era.

He took talent as a go-getter, put it on the fast track and saved four years from the cooking process.

"It's a bit sad in Israeli football that they treat an 18-year-old boy and talk about processes, probably in the big teams," Ozen told Sharon Davidovich in an article about Gluch that was broadcast on Sport1.

"Krasteich came to surf and Israeli football from heaven."

"Comes to Israeli football from heaven."

Oscar Gluch (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

Which leads us to a tangle.

Gluch caught the eye in the first game of the youth team at the European Championships.

The professionals were impressed and the knowledge of the "44 scouts" who predicted it in 2: 2 with Serbia jumped the story into the headlines.

What's the mess?

Glouch has a contract for only two more years.

Suggestions were and more will come.

The follow-up will probably continue regardless of the team's continued appearances in the Euros.

On the face of it, Gluch has no interest in extending his contract with Maccabi Tel Aviv.

The ideal for him is to continue the progress for another season and then choose where to continue.

Maccabi Tel Aviv?

For her it is a matter of price, but also of a change of perception.

Gluch is Maccabi Tel Aviv's biggest asset at the moment, as long as he is of course healthy, plays more or less regularly and continues to progress.

If and when all this data is connected, he should put at least what Solomon put into the Maccabi Petah Tikva box office in the move to Shakhtar.

The voices coming out of Kiryat Shalom, at least outwardly, speak of a higher sum, but also of the desire to see Gluch extend a contract.

Why actually?

"You're just killing your youth."

Jordi Cruyff (Photo: Kobi Eliyahu)

To answer the question, one has to go back to the time of Jordi Cruyff.

In his round of farewell interviews with Israel in the summer of 2018, the Dutchman said: "One of the biggest problems of Israeli football is the fact that you are simply killing your youth. What you are conveying here is that there is no reserve league, or reserve team, is that 18-year-old Israeli players are better "European players are 22. In Europe, the player is prepared until the age of 21, and here already at the age of 18 you think he is already suitable for adults. It's bullshit."

Cruyff not only built the slow-cooking mechanism he describes here, but made sure the senior Israeli players on the team were generously rewarded and in return waived the release clause abroad. This is a sensible move of course. In the vast majority of the Cruyff era and in the years that followed, in the better and less successful seasons, Maccabi Tel Aviv knew how to keep whoever it wanted or say goodbye to its conditions. Desa and Dor Peretz.

In the same interview in 2018, Cruyff said: "There is a gap and a hole here that needs to be covered. You will not get better if you do not understand what is wrong here ... You have a lot of talent, but the work environment and mentality do not allow great success. "They fail because they are not athletically educated to play in Europe properly." To his credit, Cruyff absorbed Israeli football fairly quickly.

He understood that senior Israelis bring degrees.

He recognized the rise in prices and reduced purchases from league teams "because everyone thought Maccabi Tel Aviv was a sucker for paying any amount."

He realized that stuck legionnaires cost less and are therefore worth enticing them with high salaries.

The pit he was talking about still exists.

Yes, there is a need for a reserve league or subsidiaries, but all of these are irrelevant for players who are ready at 17-18.

In fact, everything he said when he left was true at the time.

But since then the reality has changed.

Avi Luzon and the Solomon and Abda deals is dictating the current reality.

Need to get out of here as soon as possible.

Oscar Gluch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)

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It's very simple.

18-19-20 talent is an interesting and valuable commodity for European teams.

A 23-24 year old player who still plays in Israel?

much less.

It cools down and interest around it goes down.

Now comes one like Luzon and says: If I can spend 4-6 million euros on talents like Solomon and worked why should I sell within the league for less?

The Nisnovs come, Jackie Ben Zaken comes, Eyal Segal comes and straightens a line.

This creates a situation where deals within the league are less realistic and even the young players do not need them.

One like Gluch does not need Betar Tel Aviv and neither the question in Kiryat Shmona nor a new contract in Kiryat Shalom for four years. He needs to get out of here as soon as possible.

Let's take a moment to consider the subject of the 44 Scouts in Proportions.

This is the European Youth Championship with only eight teams.

It is clear that the tournament was exploded with scouts and it was like that even if the Israeli team was not there.

On the other hand, it is clear that an Israeli talent like Gluch now costs less compared to the talents from Italy, France, England and even Serbia, so he is a prospect worth following, and so will tonight (18:30, Sport4) in the game against Austria.

Should Gluch be out now?

probably not.

Is there a promise that it will be at least as big as the big names that have grown up here?

Certainly not.

Does he and Maccabi Tel Aviv have a common interest?

Definitely yes.

A stigma has been created here that selling is a sign of weakness.

For lack of competitiveness.

A sign that you are "mackerel".

Tobruk, Ashdod, Bnei Yehuda, Maccabi Petah Tikva - weak sellers, strong buyers.

Bullshit.

There is nothing wrong with being Avi Luzon.

He realized long ago that for clubs in Europe there is no difference between Maccabi Petah Tikva and Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Israel is Israel.

Maccabi Tel Aviv needs to understand its place in the global food chain.

Maybe instead of Luzon, you can compare Maccabi Tel Aviv to clubs that sell young people like Benfica, Porto, Ajax or Dortmund?

Is this a comparison that goes more smoothly in the throat?

There is nothing wrong with being like him.

Avi Luzon (Photo: Danny Maron)

Gluch's tangle is only in the head of Maccabi Tel Aviv.

There is something interesting in the fact that every topic on the subject catches headlines while everyone connected with Maccabi Tel Aviv is waiting for Eran Zehavi to hear it.

There is no need to expand on the importance of the Zehavi deal for Maccabi Tel Aviv in all respects.

But this is also not a way of life or a survival mechanism, there is no reason why Maccabi Tel Aviv will not be able to earn large sums on players like Gluch.

For this, she needs to find a place for them in the routine as well and not just when there is nothing to lose.

In fact, it is the most natural and correct route that can be.

A young actor sold for a lot of money, a teenage star returning towards the end of his career.

Ask Krestajic, this is the Serbian way.

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