The regular season of the Premier League will come to an end this evening (Monday) in the match between Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv, but just before Eli Tabiv was a guest on “Five in the Air” and commented on the struggle between the two, the situation of Maccabi Tel Aviv and the saga of Eran Zahavi and the national team.
About the main match between Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv he said: “Maccabi Haifa is bigger than Hapoel Tel Aviv in several dimensions, they will win, I have no doubt at all. Hapoel Tel Aviv is weak, Maccabi Haifa has a much better squad of players. the buyers? Without financial investment, nothing will help them. The fact that there are still the Nissanovs, Greenberg and this resident cannot work. To say and say that next season Hapoel was among the top three? They have no chance. Can management of 7-8 partners be successful? That they stop selling us keyboards.”
Taviv commented on Maccabi Tel Aviv’s situation: “I criticized Ivić more than once, I said he can’t succeed with his method of play. The great Maccabi Tel Aviv should play with three brakes against Hapoel Hadera? Cranka is the same, the method is the same method. Failure? It is obviously a failure, he did not change anything, he took it back. If Maccabi Haifa wins today, Maccabi Tel Aviv does not can talk about the championship more.”
“Maccabi Tel Aviv has a good squad, good players, but it lacks players in certain positions and has not taken care to supplement. And also this cowardly game method. A football coach is not only knowing how to coach, there are enough good coaches who lack a few things – if it’s selecting players, knowing how to manage a game correctly. I told one of the coaches who trained with me that I give him all the confidence to play offensively, not to be afraid, and so it was. With us, the coaches have a lot of ego, it’s not like Bacher who works with a team like in Europe.”
“The level of soccer in Israel is very poor, I don’t remember a time like this, for several years the level has been falling. There are three teams that show relatively good ability – Maccabi Haifa, Hapoel BS and Maccabi Tel Aviv – but the rest of the teams are more or less the same. Take a team “There is nothing that tempts me.”
Regarding the management of the crisis between the Israel national team and Eran Zahavi, Tabiv said: “Obviously, I would manage it differently if I were the chairman of the association. I would put Yossi Benyon in his place, he is a player who is the league’s top scorer, a player who has contributed a lot to Israeli football. To argue about a room? I don’t think it’s appropriate. I understood that he was willing to compromise, I think it was petty to insist on such a thing. I think they didn’t want him, the whole story of the room is an excuse. If I have a player I’m good at, a player I believe in – I’ll give him two rooms, not one.”
“The one who decides on the team is Yossi Benyon,” continued Taviv. “If he had told Alon Hazan that this is how he wanted, Eran would have gotten a room. Would he have said he got up and left? Let him go. I’m not excited about it, I’ve also had good coaches leave and less well-known coaches come who were more successful. As someone who was in soccer teams and knows what it’s like, when you If you want a player, you will do everything for him to be with you, without knocking anyone’s account.”
Finally, Taviv was asked who were the most expensive coaches who trained with him and answered that it was Eli Gutman and Dror Kashtan, who earned about 150 thousand dollars. “What happened with Kashtan was that I brought him a tape to see and asked him what was with it, and he said he hadn’t seen it and gave it to the scout. After some time he saw in the newspaper that it was written about a Colombian player who was supposed to come and asked me, I said he was offered to me. He wanted to manage everything by himself Without being interrupted, I said, ‘Thank you very much, not at my school.'”