Summary of the 0:0 between Maccabi Netanya and Maccabi Tel Aviv (Sport1)
The talks with Mitch Goldhar before the move to China, the derby that blew up and the vacation that was interrupted in the middle.
In an interview with "Hassir ourno mavim", the official podcast of Maccabi Tel Aviv, Eran Zahavi revealed some stories from his first term in yellow that you don't hear every day.
On the talks with Maccabi Tel Aviv before the move to Guagenju: "My wife says that the first vacation her first experience in Thailand was the worst possible, it was the most non-holiday vacation I had. At night I would leave the room at three with Mitch Goldhar and in the morning I would talk to J. Verdy Cruyff. I flew from Thailand to Canada, me and my wife had to fly to Toronto when we are only with summer things and it was bitterly cold there."
About the meeting with Goldhar in Canada, he said: "He really wanted me to stay. The financial differences weren't too much, we came up with some illusory outline and I realized that it was too big to do this thing here. We tore the rope in the negotiations, the offer from the Chinese was only 5 million euros and Mitch was already upset I was also upset, he told me - either 8 million or I stay at Maccabi Tel Aviv, I didn't have a release clause. We shook hands, I wrote to my agent Ronen Katsav that I broke the rope too much, I crossed the red line."
The conversations with Goldhar and Cruyff are revealed.
Zahavi (Photo: Danny Maron)
On the Tel Aviv derby that blew up after a Hapoel Tel Aviv fan broke into the grass and hit him: "I wanted to leave after this game, I said I wasn't playing anymore. I didn't care about dropping points because I understood that we would win the championship anyway, a fan attacked me when I did nothing, whoever was hurt From the situation, it's just me."
"I told Jordi that if they don't get off the field, I'm not coming anymore, that I don't want to train," revealed Zahavi, "I finally calmed down, but I really believed that we should have gotten off the field. I think we shouldn't have continued, to take responsibility. The referee should have done the This, someone had to do it, the game cannot continue when a fan attacks a player and the player is out."
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