He preferred the red of Carmel: Eliel Peretz was at the center of a fight between Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa, which was ultimately decided in the northern direction, when the midfielder signed a two-year contract through his agent, Gilad Katsav.
So what really happened in the negotiations in the last few days? We will try to sort it out. From the moment the transfer deadline ended, Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa began to hold talks with Eliel Peretz regarding a possible joining. The midfielder who was initially heading abroad expressed his agreement to return to Israel, and on Sunday night he landed in Israel from Austria, with the understanding that he would sign in Israel.
The two most serious offers to Peretz came from Hapoel Tel Aviv and Hapoel Haifa. Peretz’s first direction was to join Hapoel Tel Aviv because he and his wife live in Tel Aviv and he wanted to stay in the center.
The day after he returned to Israel, Peretz met with Sloboden Drapich and Omer Buxenbaum. From that conversation, Peretz came out disappointed because they did not talk to him about amounts and a contract at all, but only about a professional match, when the reason for this was that Peretz’s agent, Gilad Katsav, and the owner of Hapoel Tel Aviv, Itzik Nisanov, were not in Israel.
The next day it was proposed to break a contract for 3 seasons. The first season with a salary of 130 thousand euros and a salary increase in the second and third year. Hapoel Tel Aviv’s approach was that in light of the fact that Eliel Peretz had not trained with a team since May, it would take time for him to get in shape and the season would already be in advanced stages. At the same time, Hapoel Tel Aviv insisted on an exit clause of 300,000 euros, a clause on which Hapoel Tel Aviv Tel Aviv did not agree to compromise.
On the other hand, there was Hapoel Haifa, which agreed to allow Eliel Peretz an exit clause abroad for free. The Carmel Reds offered a two-year contract (less long than Hapoel Tel Aviv), and at a higher salary estimated at 150,000 euros per season. In fact, in Hapoel Haifa they say that the total deal (bonuses, apartment and car) is valued at one million NIS per season for Hapoel Haifa.
In recent days, Eliel Peretz sent messages that he would prefer to move to Hapoel Haifa, but Hapoel Tel Aviv thought it was a negotiation trick and an attempt to improve the offer. different. Hapoel Tel Aviv claimed that they would not sign Eliel Peretz at any price, even though they evaluated him professionally, and in fact left the offer unchanged.
Yesterday there was a conversation between Yoav Katz and Gilad Katsav, the agent of Eliel Peretz, in which the negotiations were close to an explosion due to differences between the parties, but today the parties reached an understanding, and he decided to join Hapoel Haifa. Now he is opening a new page as a leading player in Hapoel Haifa that will try to reach Europe And what about Hapoel Tel Aviv? Regardless of the case, a large protest was planned outside Sharon Nisanov’s house this evening, which has now added fuel to the anger of the crowd who are frustrated by yet another purchase that slipped through their hands. Hapoel Tel Aviv’s options in the Israeli transfer market have actually closed, and it will have to wait until January to strengthen.