Helplessness and utter despair in Betar Jerusalem after the 4: 1 defeat to Maccabi Tel Aviv. Owner Moshe Hogg left Bloomfield Stadium last night (Monday) without talking to anyone. “Moshiko looked exhausted, desperate, off,” they said around the owner. “There is no longer any expectation of anything,” Betar concluded the disgraceful loss and coach Slobodan Drapic looked broken.
The big question mark is what will decide Moshe is celebrating To do next season, club officials fear the landlord will despair and announce that he is taking a step back and stops investing in the team. After two years in which he invested about NIS 100 million and another investment this season when he acquired his players and Jordan Shua, Hogg sees how Maccabi Petah Tikva and Ashdod leave him behind and it frustrates him. In internal conversations the owner has said in recent days: “I need to do good thinking why I need all this.” The owner is also heard saying: “I also put money, tens of millions, I also get curses for the family from the fans, the media also defames me.”
Whether he stays or leaves, next season a lot of players will find themselves outside the club, even players with a contract. “We are in the most difficult professional period in the last five years,” Beit Vagan concluded.
The atmosphere after the 4: 1 in Bloomfield was very bad and the goalkeeper Itamar Nitzan Said in the locker room: “What’s going on here? People do not want to run?”. There were again arguments between players that coach Shai Barda tried to silence – in the king of the game, Eliran Atar, the city of Jordan Shua, Barda He said to him: “Eliran, enough with this, be positive”, andAtar He replied: “What, just talking, it is no longer allowed to talk here?”.
From the loss to Sakhnin on Thursday until the day of the game against Maccabi Tel Aviv, Betar has been too busy with personal conversations (especially coach Shai Barda) and long team meetings. “I’m tired of talking and talking all day, there are football problems here, enough with all the psychology,” said a player on the team.
Betar’s situation only worsened after the loss to Maccabi Tel Aviv, the team’s management is helpless because at this stage they no longer know what the solution is. If Drapich and Barda resign, no one will shed a tear and Yossi Mizrahi, who works in the youth department, will take on the role of coach until the end of the season, but at the moment it seems that Drapich and Barda do not intend to resign.
‘We do not live in a film we have to constantly look up, we have to look down. We have three league games where you have to spend a maximum of points, “he concluded Drapich The condition of Betar.
Since the draw against Be’er Sheva in Toto Turner Shai Barda Pampam that for Betar Jerusalem every game is now a cup final, and it has become a joke at the club: “They are already two finals on the way to the lower playoffs,” they said in despair at Betar. Ali Muhammad and Or Zehavi will not play next Thursday against Bnei Yehuda due to yellow cards.