Doron Ben Dor, Belgrade
Bogdan Palanich (Omari Stein)
Despite qualifying for the group stage in the Champions League tonight (Tuesday), Maccabi Haifa is about to say goodbye to one of its anchors, as Bogdan Palanich is expected to move to the United Arab Emirates soon. The champion cannot resist the offer made by El Ain to the Serbian stopper, when she will exercise his release clause of two million euros.
According to the information received by ONE, it appears that the salary offered to Palanich is almost 3 times higher than Maccabi Haifa’s offer and is 1.5 million euros per season. In such a situation, the options that come before the Greens as possible replacements are Hatem Abdelhamid from Po’el Be’er Sheva or Nenad Savatkovich from MS Ashdod.
As we know, this is not the first time that question marks have been hovering over Planich. For a long time A.A.K. Greek Athens was interested in Belem, but in the end he stayed in Haifa. Recently, the club even conducted negotiations with Palanich about a new contract, but he has not yet signed it.
The brakeman himself spent his entire career in Serbia before arriving at Stiava Bucharest and from there to Haifa, signing in September 2020. The Serbian won two consecutive championships with the Greens as well as the Champion of Champions and the Toto Cup.
Al Ain is coached by the former star of Dynamo Kyiv, Sergey Rebrov, and is the champion of the United Arab Emirates. The league there will start next week and the most recognizable player in its squad is Andriy Yarmolenko who arrived last summer on a free transfer from West Ham.
