Following the qualification for the group stage of the Champions League and the revenues amounting to 100 million shekels, the president of Maccabi Haifa is expected to give permission to strengthen the team with two players, with the deadline being until the second of September, when players can be registered in UEFA for the group stage of the Champions League.
The apparent departure of Bogdan Palanich will leave a void in the center of the defense of the Greens and Barak Bakr would like to see the Hapoel BS stopper, Hatem Abdelhamid, step into his shoes, which will allow him to play with the other foreigners in the league games and make room for another foreign player in the link or attack squad.
The one who was first marked as Palanich’s replacement, is Nenad Savatkovich, MS’s lama. Ashdod, for which the costs were also examined, but the preferred option is Abdel Hamid, or another foreign brakeman. One of the candidates is Nikola Katic, the Croatian defender of Glasgow Rangers, and the scouting system is selecting names of other foreigners.
Due to the fact that Maccabi Haifa currently has six foreigners, the reinforcement options are quite limited and it is possible that in order to thicken the squad, they will try to add Aden Shamir from Standard Liege, who is interested in selling him, or alternatively, Eliel Peretz, who became a free agent. In addition, Bacher will decide whether to loan Uri Dahan, Nehrai Yifrah and Aili Hajj to other teams, due to the tight schedule and the desire to maintain a large roster. It is not impossible that at least two of the three will remain on Haifa’s roster at least until January.