Barsky joins Hapoel Haifa on loan

Ruslan Barsky will rejoin Hapoel Haifa on a one-year-loan deal as the 28-year-old midfielder returns to the club he played for during the 2017/18 season.

Barsky, who made two appearances this season in the Toto Cup Final against Bnei Sachnin and in the Champions League Playoff first leg at home to Salzburg, made an overall 51 appearances scoring one goal since returning to the club in the summer of 2018. In two seasons at Maccabi, Barsky, a product of Maccabi’s Youth Academy, won 2 league titles, 2 Toto Cups and 2 Super Cups.

Hanzis joins Beitar Tel Aviv on loan

Ronen Hanzis will join Beitar Tel Aviv Bat Yam on a season long loan deal.

The 18-year-old winger made two appearances this season for the senior side in the Super Cup against Hapoel Be’ersheva and away to Salzburg in the return leg of the Champions League Playoff.

“Ronen impressed the coaching staff right from the beginning of pre-season and in order to progress his development, we reached a decision for him to experience some significant playing time in the second division”.

Hernandez: “We want to get a good positive result”

With two victories from their opening two Europa League Group stage matches, Maccabi continue towards their next mission – Villareal who also have a 100% record.

The team arrived this morning at Ben Gurion airport where they depart to Spain and face Villareal tomorrow (Thursday 22:00).

Maccabi will land in the early hours of the afternoon at Costa Azahar airport in Castellon. Later on, the team will hold the pre-match press conference followed the final training session at La Ceramica stadium.

Novatus Dismas Miroshi joins the U19’s

Miroshi, who played for Azam FC is a member of Tanzania’s U-21 national side, impressed the youth academy’s coaching staff during an impression week at the club and will join the U19’s.

Maccabi’s Performance Director, Patrick Van Leeuwen, told the club’s official website: “Nova is a Tanzanian left footed midfielder who was recommended to our scouting department and we invited him for trials at the start of the season. Sadly, we were unable to hand him a trial for several weeks due to the COVID19 pandemic. Recently however we were able to see him properly and we are under the impression that he is a very interesting player who will be joining our structure at Maccabi”

Glazer: “I am proud to be part of this team”

Following the 2-2 draw against Maccabi Haifa at Sammy Ofer and collected a point, Maccabi’s midfielder, Dan Glazer, spoke about the match, the result and the start to the season.

“I would like to begin by saying that I am proud to be part of this team”, Glazer said. “We proved today that we have plenty of character. We wanted to win the game and felt in the second half that we could do it but the third goal didn’t want to go in. I think that we can’t start a game like that. Regardless what happens we can not let Haifa take a two goal lead, but we managed to get back in the game and show that we don’t break too easily. We should have won this match even though Haifa deserve a lot of credit for their game. The league is a marathon and I hope that in the end we will be in the place we deserve to be”