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Away from the elections for the head of the football association that took place in a hotel in Shfeiim, for six days now in Kiryat Shalom one of the biggest crises experienced by Maccabi Tel Aviv in the Mitch Goldhar era, but also one of the quietest of them.
There is no attempt here for a moment to define as a neighborhood the elections for the football association, against the managerial professionalism of Mitch Goldhar, absolutely not.
These were spontaneous, competitive, real elections that were conducted in a professional manner.
Even the television cooperated and upgraded the struggle that very few know what it was about.
The event itself at the polling booth was also respectable and even the pressure on the representative of Pardes Hana, that they were waiting to close the polling stations and start the counting, was not able to ruin the evening of Shino Zoertz.
So why are the two events so far apart?
Because unlike the commotion and celebration of the microphones last night, Maccabi Tel Aviv has not spoken for six days.
Since Friday morning, when the news came out and the whole truth was revealed very quickly about Veldan Ivic and the contract from Krasnodar, the club has been silent.
The Serb is also silent, and he usually does not fill his mouth with water.
Ivić's press conferences this season were honest and open.
He did not hide his disappointment with the acquisitions made by the team, with the lack of players in certain positions and was not afraid to open up issues that border on violating the sacred.
This time Ivić does not speak, both because it is a club decision and because he knows it will hurt him.
His departure fell on Maccabi like thunder on a clear day.
Ivitch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
The story with Ivitch fell on Maccabi Tel Aviv like a thunderbolt on a clear day.
If in the cases of Georgios Donis and Patrick van Leeuwen the dismissals were built up from cycle to cycle and there was time to prepare for a change of coach, the current story is not something you can prepare for.
It can be argued that a serious club like Maccabi Tel Aviv should have a bank of names of available coaches or those who have to pay a realistic amount to bring them in, but if we want to be fair, the concession that the Serbian dropped after the cup game against Umm Al Fahem and before the league game against Bnei Rayna, left Naturally, the heads of Maccabi Tel Aviv are speechless.
It happened exactly two weeks ago and as evidence, there is still no coach for Maccabi Tel Aviv in Kenna.
Many ask why Maccabi Tel Aviv did not oppose the release.
Why didn't she stand on her hind legs and make it clear to Ivic that she brought him back with a high contract of 800 thousand euros and with all due respect to Krasnodar and the dream offer he received from her in the amount of 2 million euros net, he should refuse, talk to the Russians only after the season ends.
So that's it, Ivitch was determined when he arrived at Maccabi Tel Aviv with the offer he received, and even if neither party admits it, he most likely has a release clause in his contract.
Many coaches include an exit clause in their contracts and if the club does not comply with it, it usually ends with the coach's resignation, a short wait and signing at the new destination.
It's quite simple, certainly when it comes to moving to another country.
Maccabi Tel Aviv could theoretically tell Ivic that he is not going anywhere, but then they would run the risk of him resigning and leaving her without the compensation she will receive from the Russians and without a coach.
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Don't want to sign an Israeli instead of Ivić.
Goldhar (Photo: Yotam Ronen)
So why isn't this happening anymore?
Why doesn't Maccabi Tel Aviv release Ivić, sign a coach in his place and eliminate the affair?
To Mitch Goldhar's credit, it should be said that he does not see the coach's position as secondary, but of utmost importance, and hence he checks, requests reports and consults in order not to fall. There is no problem for Kennedy to sign a coach.
It will not be Israeli again, but there are plenty of foreigners. The question is whether Is there any point in such a gift? After all, there have been many failures with coaches at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which means that even maximum scouting does not guarantee success. Goldhar is a stubborn man with a way and he prefers this way, in which the Maccabi Tel Aviv players have been in a kind of darkness for six days, Apart from the information that emerges from the publications in the media, it worked great on Saturday against Hapoel Hadera.
Despite the tsunami of news over the weekend, Maccabi Tel Aviv decided not to respond.
Neither to the media nor in front of the players, and they really weren't affected when they defeated Assaf Nemani's team 0:5.
It may also have sharpened them.
Do them a favor and make them one unit.
Like, here the commander is leaving so we the soldiers seem to be able to manage without him.
Not sharing anything.
Ivitch (Photo: Ariel Shalom)
The question is whether this conduct will also be sufficient to sit in Kiryat Shmona and here lies the big dilemma.
For a week training takes place in Kiryat Shalom, when the players know something is up.
After all, it can't be that the media has been dealing with this for six days and nothing.
It is true that Maccabi Tel Aviv has accustomed its players and fans to wait for an official announcement on the website, but Ivić also did not deny on Saturday in front of the microphones that he is leaving.
And there are also his assistants.
An entire team that has been in contact with the players since the beginning of the season.
Did none of them share with someone close to them from the players about leaving within a few days?
According to testimonies from the dressing room in Kiryat Shalom, none of them know anything.
Training is going on as usual.
Ivić is tough and pedantic as usual and at the press conference tomorrow he will not share anything.
With Jordi Cruyff, things would have been different (photo: official website, Maccabi Tel Aviv)
Someone who doesn't have a long-term memory said this week that if Maccabi Tel Aviv had a foreign professional manager, especially Jordi Cruyff, things would have looked different and a coach would have already landed here instead of Ivić.
It is enough to remember the season that Shota Arvaldze started.
The Georgian was fired and Maccabi Tel Aviv did not have a coach to replace him for 37 days.
The situation was so bad that Cruyff himself stepped down and coached the team in eight games, in which he did an excellent job that resulted in Goldhar asking him a season later to coach the team himself.
Cruyff too, not only Barak Yitzhak last season after the dismissal of van Leeuwen, had trouble finding a coach in the middle of the season and with all his connections, had to serve as a temporary coach, until Lito Vidigal landed here who was by all accounts one of the worst coaches in the Goldhar era.
Much thanks to the foreign fabric that surrounds Maccabi Tel Aviv, the club manages to juggle well in the news since Friday.
When the owner is in Canada, his right hand flies from place to place and does not speak and the coach is also silent, no wonder that for almost a week, Maccabi Tel Aviv manages to deal with the big storm.
Ivitch will coach Maccabi Tel Aviv on Saturday in Kiryat Shmona.
It is possible that he will also stay for the cup game against Bnei Sakhnin on Tuesday.
One way or another, in the middle of next week he will leave.
Maccabi Tel Aviv will continue to work in the coming days to close with the next coach who will bring his team.
They will only hope not to stumble in the league and lose points and that it will not hurt them in the cup, where as I remember it is impossible to fix.
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