Rafael Assis

Defensive Midfielder - Sepsi OSK
23 Nov 2026
Monday
Process

Marked for Rafael Assis

15 Edition

The Sepsi OSK Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Oskar Pietuszewski

Successful dribbles: 28. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

4 matches without a win for Sepsi OSK

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Sepsi OSK are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Oskar Pietuszewski falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Voluntari take the points off Sepsi OSK

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

A falling-out at Sepsi OSK

Adnan Aganović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Samuele di Benedetto

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sepsi OSK told Samuele di Benedetto something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

The dugout

Ionut Dragusin faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ionut Dragusin after 0‑1, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

Squad

No place for Rafael Assis in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sepsi OSK are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Nicolae Păun

“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
14 Edition

The Sepsi OSK Post

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout

Alin Dobrosavlevici: 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.” Sepsi OSK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Darius Oroian was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Squad

Samuele di Benedetto 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 Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Oskar Pietuszewski falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Loan watch

Dragos Nedelcearu has seen enough of Dinamo Bucharest

“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 Sepsi OSK, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad

Sepsi OSK lose Dino Skorup

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

Squad

Rafael Assis stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rafael Assis and Sepsi OSK agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 92% of the Sepsi OSK income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

Match

Sepsi OSK share the spoils with Chindia Târgoviște

A 1‑1 draw with Chindia Târgoviște leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

1 Edition

The Trofense Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets

Door shut on Mohamed Ali Diadié

Trofense asked and Torreense said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at Trofense

Leo Lopes and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Brian Agbor is in the works

Trofense have made the call to Torreense. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Jota is in the works

Trofense have made the call to Nacional. No fee, a share of the wages, and a spare shirt in the position where the squad has been thinnest all season.

Transfer targets

Trofense ask about Tobías Medina

A loan enquiry to Rio Ave: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

The dugout

Leo Lopes 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 Leo Lopes trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief