Also yesterday morning (Sunday), as every day for almost the last few weeks, Dor Peretz drove the vehicle and drove from the center north to Afula. Fitness coach Eran Sado was waiting for him on the grass of the municipal field in the capital of the Jezreel Valley. Peretz is not the only one who has been attending personal training at Sado lately. Dia Seba there, Shir Tzedek, Omri Ben Harush and other players who have not yet found a team for next season. Peretz is not lazy. He can train close to home, but he travels to train with the fitness coach of the Israeli team, to be ready for the moment when he will decide where he wants to play next season.
Three proposals were put to him from the Premiership. Blackpool, Hull City and most recently Middlesbrough. Blackpool employs Ben Mansford who is courting him vigorously. Mansford left Maccabi Tel Aviv to serve as the club’s general manager and after Peretz finished the Venice chapter, he got dressed on the phone of Avi Nemani, Peretz’s agent and began begging the player to come. There is something very magical about the English Premier League. Even without the big dream, this is one of the best leagues in Europe with luxury clubs and a large crowd.
It’s not just the pay cut. 900,000 net net earned last season in Serie A. The despair was much more comfortable in the city of the gondolas when a lot of money flowed into the bank account every month. Peretz is mostly afraid to go through a season similar to the one he had in northeastern Italy. Practicing and not playing on the weekend is something he will not be able to go through again. Even the lovable Mansford who can retire his patronage does not yet make him take a plane and land on the British Isles. Recently, there was also an offer from Hungarian champion Frantzvaros. A luxury club in the country that wants to develop and grow and Dor Peretz can find a comfortable place in a league that is not difficult. But even this did not really find the relationship attractive.
It turned out that Peretz has been thinking a lot of the last few days. He was always a different type. Introverted, different in our football landscape. Anyone who once tried to mark him as a Maccabist who does not see anyone in the rain, did not know what he was talking about. Dor Peretz is the farthest from the tough player who was the best in our league a year and a half ago in the first season of Patrick Van Leven. Toughness and roughness are not there in the personality, but mostly tenderness and difficulty in making a decision.
He loves Maccabi Tel Aviv very much. Even in the parents’ house in Hod Hasharon very much loved. Special parents must be broken into. They do not force him to stay in Europe. There is no fear that they will vote for him and say that he returned to Israel after one season. Let him do what’s good for him, they tell anyone who asks, and really want him to be by their side. “As far as Dor’s parents are concerned, Maccabi Tel Aviv is Europe for all intents and purposes and if he decides to return, they will be completely whole with the choice and will be very happy,” say the family.
Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have flooded Peretz with messages since the loss to Maccabi Netanya on Thursday. This is not yet Maccabi Tel Aviv that will be next season, but they know that alongside Eran Zehavi, Dor Peretz is a tie breaker. The man who can make the change and turn the bowl upside down to bring the championship back to Kiryat Shalom. At his peak at Maccabi Tel Aviv, Peretz held the team on his back in a battle for Barak Bachar’s first championship at Maccabi Haifa. He was everywhere on the field. Turned the connection that ran from space to space into a concept named after him in the league here. Last season in Venice a lot of it disappeared and even when it came to the national team games, it was not a steady and solid burst. The season in Italy did him harm and left him with deep scars that he needs to heal.
On Thursday after the game against Maccabi Netanya, Vladan Ivitch said that Peretz and Eli Dassah must first decide that they want to return to Israel. Peretz wants Madassa much more to return to Maccabi Tel Aviv and he intends to hand over the decision in the coming days. If he announces that he has decided to return home, Maccabi Tel Aviv will have to open negotiations with him, which may eventually be the one to thwart the comeback. If Mitch Goldhaar does not give an order to close at any cost, it could take a long time and who knows how it will end at all. But before Namani is called to a meeting about the contract, Peretz has to say that he wants to and that is what many are waiting for.