Dheimison

Goalkeeper - Retired
27 Jun 2030
Thursday
Process

Marked for Dheimison

193 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

8 Apr 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Viitorul lose Dheimison

35 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ivan Lagundžić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

Back issues
189 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

11 Mar 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Viitorul lose Dheimison

65 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

No hiding place for Ignacio Valsangiácomo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ignacio Valsangiácomo, and the manager let it.

In brief

185 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

11 Feb 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Andrii Bobynets puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Andrei Vlad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Viitorul lose Ciprian Tanase

18 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

183 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

28 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Dheimison asks to leave Viitorul

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Mauro García is a Viitorul player

The fee is $240.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Dinamo Bucharest drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Andrei Vlad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Simón Comesaña gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

The Narcis Ilaş story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Narcis Ilaş signs something — a contract at Viitorul or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Paul Keseru knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Paul Keseru trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

182 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

21 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Jacob Jensen puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Ionut Dragusin has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Viitorul they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ciprian Keseru out for 35 days

The medical room confirms 35 days on the sidelines for Ciprian Keseru, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Viitorul lose Dragos Burca

48 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Squad

Daniel Mitrita knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Viitorul, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

181 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

14 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Viitorul say no — this time

The offer from Voluntari for Mihnea Rădulescu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Mihael Rebernik: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Viitorul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Alexandru Iancu has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Viitorul they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Market

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson moves on

Pandurii pay $1.1M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Andrei Vlad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Dheimison

130 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

180 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

7 Jan 2030
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Dheimison: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Viitorul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Ciprian Tanase is named among the best

There are footballers who have a good season and footballers a season is remembered for, and the second kind get their names read out in a hall in the summer. Viitorul will be quietly delighted and privately nervous.

Squad

Emiliano Purita stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Emiliano Purita and Viitorul agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Dheimison is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Viitorul has been clear about where Dheimison stands, which is more than many ever get.

Boardroom

Viitorul sign a deal worth $284.5K a year

Commercial news is the news nobody sings about and everything else is paid for with. The board will call it a partnership; the accountants will call it the difference between this squad and a smaller one.

In brief

176 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

10 Dec 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Lovro Stanić puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Alin Fică says Viitorul went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

168 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

15 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Andrei Vlad

There were 14 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Dheimison says Viitorul went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Emiliano Purita

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Match

Viitorul come up short against Dinamo Bucharest

Dinamo Bucharest left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Bogdan Hagi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

154 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

9 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Voluntari watching Mihnea Rădulescu

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Viitorul have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Squad

Adrian Ratiu out for 14 days

The medical room confirms 14 days on the sidelines for Adrian Ratiu, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Dragos Balasa

88 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Dheimison gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Market

Viitorul pick up Jacob Jensen for nothing

The best deals are the ones the accountants never notice. Jacob Jensen arrives at Viitorul with his wages the only cost and something to prove the only clause.

In brief

150 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

11 Jun 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Voluntari come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Viitorul did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Alexandru Iancu hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

Pandurii are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Viitorul will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Market

Viitorul sell José Álvarez for $120.0K

José Álvarez has left for CFR Cluj in a $120.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Squad

Gabriel Ersoy gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

144 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

30 Apr 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Mihnea Rădulescu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Viitorul is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Market

Kazuki Matsuda asks to leave Viitorul

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Andrei Vlad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

In brief

139 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

26 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Razvan Chiriches: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Viitorul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Viitorul lose Dheimison

16 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

137 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

12 Mar 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vlad Chatunts asks to leave Viitorul

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market

Kazuki Matsuda is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Viitorul is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Ionut Dragusin out for 16 days

The medical room confirms 16 days on the sidelines for Ionut Dragusin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Loan watch

Nicusor Cicaldau wants to come home

“I did not go to FCSB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Viitorul and fight for my place.” 1 appearances in 38 matches say the rest.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ivan Lagundžić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

In brief

135 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

26 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Kazuki Matsuda puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

José Álvarez was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Dheimison

47 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

133 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

12 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vlad Chatunts hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Dheimison: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Viitorul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Pavao Herceg signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Pavao Herceg commits to Viitorul for another 4 years.

Loan watch

Nicusor Cicaldau has seen enough of FCSB

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Viitorul, and 1 appearances in 34 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Alin Fică gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

131 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Viitorul say no — this time

The offer from Fehervar for Mihnea Rădulescu was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Dheimison

77 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

130 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

22 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

José Álvarez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

Viitorul turn down Astra for Dragos Man

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Fehervar join the queue for Mihnea Rădulescu

Add another name to the list: Fehervar have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Mihnea Rădulescu. The answer from Viitorul has not changed — yet.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Andrei Vlad was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Alexandru Iancu

14 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Davíð Snær Jóhannsson placed on the list

Viitorul have made Davíð Snær Jóhannsson available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

127 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

1 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Serkan puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Dheimison out for 108 days

The medical room confirms 108 days on the sidelines for Dheimison, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief

123 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

4 Dec 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

José Álvarez puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Emiliano Sosa says Viitorul went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Viitorul turn down Atletico Bucaramanga for Narcis Ilaş

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Dheimison

138 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Market

Daniel Mitrita wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Viitorul hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

José Álvarez wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Viitorul know it.

In brief

113 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

25 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

A hiding for Viitorul

Beaten 0‑3 by Pandurii, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Andrei Vlad

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

José Álvarez gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Boardroom

Inquest at Viitorul

The manager kept them in and said what needed saying. A response is expected on Saturday, and if it does not come the questions move upstairs.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Bogdan Hagi

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Emiliano Sosa knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Emiliano Sosa trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Viitorul bring in an old head

Dheimison is 39 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Player ratings

The one thing Adrian Ratiu could not do

Shots: 7, enough of them from close enough that a striker in form scores two. He is not a striker in form.

In brief

111 Edition

The Ferencvaros Post

11 Sep 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ádám Varga

There were 10 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Match

Ferencvaros up to position 2

13 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Player ratings

Kristoffer Zachariassen runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Ferencvaros

Jonathan Levi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Naby Keïta

Defensive actions: 23. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Player ratings

One of those days for Mariano Gómez

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.44, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Jonathan Levi

Marked 9.15 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Match

Ferencvaros find a way past Vasas

Vasas made Ferencvaros work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

Gábor Szalai signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Gábor Szalai commits to Ferencvaros for another 3 years.

In brief

109 Edition

The Al Jazira Herald

28 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Jhonier Hurtado: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Al Jazira have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

Thomas Partey in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Al Jazira this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Tahnoon Hamdan gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

In brief

108 Edition

The Al Jazira Herald

21 Aug 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Tempers go at Al Jazira

Thomas Partey was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Loan watch

Salem Juma has seen enough of Al Wasl

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Al Jazira, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Market

Abdulla Al-Tamimi told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Abdulla Al-Tamimi has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Al Jazira.

Market

Experience through the door at Al Jazira

Dheimison arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.

Market

Marcus Meloni linked with a move away

The name of Marcus Meloni keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Al Jazira say nothing, which says plenty.

Squad

Tahnoon Hamdan knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Tahnoon Hamdan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief