Yuval Sason is closing in on a switch to Maccabi Bnei Reineh, according to a report from ONE, in a move that would end his prolific season-long spell at Hapoel Ramat Gan just as that club prepares for a return to the Israeli top flight.
Sason scored 11 league goals for Hapoel Ramat Gan last season and was a central figure in the club's promotion push. Bnei Reineh will pay a transfer fee to Ramat Gan to complete the deal, ONE reports, with the forward expected to sign a multi-year contract at his new club.
There is an unusual symmetry to the move. Sason is leaving a side that has just won promotion to Ligat Ha'al for a club heading the other way: Bnei Reineh dropped out of the top flight at the end of the same season, ending a four-year stay among Israel's elite.
Bnei Reineh's return to Liga Leumit has not started smoothly. ONE notes the club opened the new National League campaign with a 4-1 defeat to Bnei Yehuda, underlining the scale of the rebuild facing the Nof HaGalil-based club after relegation.
Sason has become one of the more prominent attacking players in the National League in recent seasons, and his signing would give Bnei Reineh's coaching staff a proven goal-scorer as they try to arrest an already difficult start to the campaign.
Nothing has been made official by either club, and the size of the fee involved has not been disclosed, but according to ONE the move now appears to be a formality rather than a live negotiation.
