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Oscar Gluch thanks the audience (Radad Jabara)
A big surprise is emerging at Maccabi Tel Aviv when ONE first learns that Oscar Gluch is expected to soon finish his part with the club’s youth team and move regularly to the senior team, this season. It is very possible that the transfer will take place already these days ahead of the game against Maccabi Haifa. The young midfielder, considered the big diamond of the youth department, recorded a record season in his first season in the senior team of the department with 16 goals in all settings from the offensive midfield position and in addition, was an integral part of Israel’s youth team promotion to the European Championship.
As already reported in ONE, Gluch was planned to be part of the preparations for next season and maybe even to stay on the roster regularly and not go out on loan, and it seems that the Yellows are advancing the process further into this season. The contact has already managed to make two senior appearances this season, one in the Toto Cup and one in the State Cup against Maccabi Kabilio Jaffa. Recently, there was a lively discussion at the club about the player’s professional future against the background of the loanee model who experienced a difficult professional blow this season with the impending relegation of Betar Tel Aviv Bat Yam to the first division.
At the same time, Gluch is defined as one of the most promising players in Israeli football, and Maccabi Tel Aviv has professional elements who believe that he should not be allowed to go out and ask questions and that he should start running from now on. This season he has trained quite a bit with the senior team during the week alongside training and games with the youth team. It should be noted that the club’s youth team is at the height of the championship battle, but it seems that it will have to make do without its main player until the end of the season, when he will try to make his way to the staff of Mladen Krestajic during the upcoming games.
These days, the youth team of Maccabi Tel Aviv is ranked at the top of the league with 57 points after 26 games, 2 points over MS Ashdod and Maccabi Petah Tikva, 3 over Hapoel Tel Aviv and 5 over Maccabi Haifa. It should be noted that there are still games left in the Yellows’ 30th and 32nd rounds against Hapoel Tel Aviv away and against Ashdod at home, and even the semi-final of the cup against Ashdod, but apparently – Gluch should no longer be part of the youth team’s squad in struggles that can Decide the fate of both degrees.
Behind the apparent decision and alongside the ability of Gluch and the great talent, there are also quite a few injuries that have plagued the team recently, when since the start of the playoffs Krasteich has had to play without Dan Bitton due to two different injuries, and Eyal Golsa was unfit for Maccabi Netanya. Going beyond the possibility that he will get a chance to play in the top playoffs, he will also be able to thicken the squad of Krastic, who is suffering from the loads and injuries at the moment.
