17 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CSM Reșița lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. CSM Reșița will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CSM Reșița can pretend not to have heard.
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at CSM Reșița can tell you which week it ends in.
Dani Iglesias 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.
Olimpia Satu Mare left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Jan Kvída 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.
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 9 combined actions and a mark of 6.89, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The view from the dugout
“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Cristian Coman to a room that had heard them before.
54 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CSM Reșița lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. CSM Reșița will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Richard Odada and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Jan Kvída 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.
Two sides from the top of the table, one afternoon, and a month of talk decided in ninety minutes. CSM Reșița will not use the word title this week and will not stop thinking it.
Nobody at CSM Reșița will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Vlad Chera has written the date down.
6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” CSM Reșița have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at CSM Reșița training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Kvída is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Dani Iglesias 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.
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Cristian Coman after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Antonio Mico's mistake
Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Politehnica Iași? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against CSC Dumbrăvița in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $50.1K — a club that wants Fabinho enough to be asked twice.
3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
The offer went to Sepsi OSK this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.
Richard Odada 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.
$47.0K on the table at Farul Constanța. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Ivan Bosančić has, at CSM Reșița, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Slavia Prague have kept their man, and CSM Reșița go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Elton was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Richard Odada has just signed for CSM Reșița, and for once the answer mattered.
1 for Ouadie Salhi, marked 7.99, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.
CSM Reșița asked and Petrolul Ploiești said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CSM Reșița this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Voluntari made CSM Reșița work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Robert Jerdea 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.
Every long career reaches the week the last one is thought about. He would like it to be where he started, and CSM Reșița know now that the thought has arrived.
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Marius Cioiu 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.
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; CSM Reșița are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Alin Dudea 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.
Still no offer on the table, and Ionuţ Rus’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.