Maccabi hopes for a breakthrough in negotiations with Peretz and Seborit

Maccabi Tel Aviv continues the pursuit of the championship and last night (Monday) completed its seventh consecutive victory in the league, with Patrick Van Leven scoring 31 points from his 33 games since replacing Georgios Donis in what looks like the best replacement of this season. The Yellows defeated MS 1: 3. Ashdod in a game that provided a tense end and managed to do their job a few days after returning from Ukraine from relegation against Shakhtar Donetsk in the last 32 of the Europa League and even with a missing squad, with two of the team’s leading players – Yonatan Cohen recovering from injury and Alexander Peshich diagnosed with Corona.

Those who took the stage last night were two in particular – Daniel Tennenbaum and Matan Hozaz. The frustration of how the Brazilian-Jew appeared between the posts could be heard from one of the team members in Ashdod after the game: “Did you see how he stands and takes everything? With his shoulder, he stopped us with one kick. ” Maccabi Tel Aviv complimented the goalkeeper and said of him that “he has proven himself again, you see that there is a serious goalkeeper here and one that the Israeli team will soon be able to summon and will have to build on.” Tenenbaum is one of a wave of contract graduates at Maccabi Tel Aviv at the end of the season, but the Yellows believe that he will sign a new contract soon.

After Tennenbaum, Hozaz was without a doubt the other standout of the game. He scored with a penalty and cooked the latter for Avi Rikan to close out the game story. The home player once again proved that he deserves the opportunities he gets after not being counted by Donis for half a season, but with Van Leven he gets the stage and rightly so, the fans also chose him as the outstanding player of the game against Ashdod. “I thank the crowd for the choice, we are waiting for the return of the crowd, thirsty for it, I would say we are missing it,” he said after the game about the yellow fans who waited for the players and greeted their bus with flares and encouragement. Last night, Maccabi Tel Aviv also liked the team’s impressive pressure game, led by the link trio that opened the game with the excellent Dor Peretz and Eyal Golsa (who scored with pressure inside the extension) and Shachar Phiben, who Van Leven changed his role and the back contact position Pretty.

Maccabi Tel Aviv, along with the ongoing championship battle, are hoping for a breakthrough in negotiations with the contract terminals, with leading players such as Enrique Sborit and Dor Peretz, as is well known, in the last few months of their contracts. The two received offers and long negotiations took place in front of the players’ representatives, a kind of ping pong of offers, in the hope that they would both sign. As for the Spanish left-back, Maccabi is broadcasting optimism and claiming that it is very good for him in Israel and also for his family and they believe that he will continue. There is also cautious optimism about the home player and hope that he will be persuaded to sign the high contract offered to him.

Among the list of contract graduates is also the provision of latexa, on which the club has an option. In addition, both Dan Glazer and Matan Hozaz are in the same situation but there is an attempt to sign all three on long-term contracts as already announced. Veteran defensive players Eitan Tibi and Sharan Yeni in the same boat, Luis Hernandez also, Avi Rikan, Itai Schechter, Tal Ben Haim, Alexander Peshich and Nick Blackman. The club still does not know which of them will stay in the end, for some of them the club has an option for another season, but in any case Maccabi Tel Aviv are already in long talks with most of the players mentioned.