Raz Amir 30/01/2024 20:33
Raz Shlomo (Radad Jabara)
Not only Younes Melda: Maccabi Tel Aviv is negotiating with the Belgian Leuven for the transfer of the defender Raz Shlomo, as ONE learned for the first time and it is on its way to a very significant purchase if it succeeds in completing the deal. The Yellows are trying to finalize the details with the Belgian club that only bought the player in the summer for 1.2 million euros from Maccabi Netanya.
The player’s conditions are not a problem and everything actually depends on the exhaustion of the talks between the two teams, when the Yellows must acquire a stopper for now and for next season, when Enrik Saborit does not receive citizenship and Derrick Lucassen, like the Spaniard, finish their contracts. Shlomo is without a doubt one of the brakes of the future of Israeli football and is appreciated by the management of the Yellows for some time after they tried to attach him in the past.
Shlomo participated in 10 games this season in a Leuven uniform and after the exchange of coaches that brought Oscar Garcia there, he got a little more minutes, but still not significantly. He has 756 minutes in all competitions and two goals. Recently he also played in the position of the back midfielder.
Maccabi Tel Aviv has wanted the player for several years and he was one of those Ben Mansford tried to sign back when he was at Hapoel Tel Aviv, in the Briton’s first term in Israel. The CEO of the Yellows is sure that this is a quality stopper who can help the team. Shlomo, it should be noted, used to play in recent years as a left brakeman, but he is generally right-footed, so he has a place in both brake positions.
Like Younes Melda, who will sign with the Yellows if he passes the medical tests, Shlomo experienced his blossoming in the Premier League mainly in Maccabi Netanya and from there he went to Belgium. Today, at the age of 24, it is possible that after half a season he will return to Israel to the squad of Robbie Keane.
Shlomo grew up in the youth department of Hapoel Tel Aviv and from there he moved to Maccabi Netanya at the time for about 500 thousand euros, after which Eyal Segal managed to sell him for more than double the amount to the Belgian team. In the last campaign of the Israeli national team, he was part of the rotation of the first team under Alon Hazan.
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