Viktor Kun

Right Back - Petrolul
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Viktor Kun

29 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

15 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Ciprian Deac out for 73 days

73 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CFR Cluj lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Match

CFR Cluj sink to position 8

14 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Words exchanged at CFR Cluj

Sheriff Sinyan 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

CFR Cluj rebuffed over Heorhii Yermakov

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Metalist have kept their man, and CFR Cluj go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Păun 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.

Loan watch

Viktor Kun counts the days

“I watch every CFR Cluj game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Petrolul runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Market

The Andrei Cordea question follows CFR Cluj around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrei Cordea’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Jakub Markovič can feel the drop

The table is being checked before the results are in, which is always the tell. Nobody at CFR Cluj says the word and every senior player in the building is thinking it.

Market

Christopher Braun placed on the list

CFR Cluj have made Christopher Braun available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
25 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

18 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

The knee: Alessandro Ahmetaj out for 81 days

81 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Petrolul lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

The dugout

Cornel Râpă: 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.” Petrolul have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Transfer targets

Angel Yondjo is a medical away from Petrolul

The deal with LOSC Lille is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

Words exchanged at Petrolul

Karlo Muhar 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Petrolul

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamin Kanurić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Botosani tell Petrolul: Zoran Mitrov is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Transfer targets

A loan move for Remus Guţea is in the works

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

Squad

Petrolul are still strangers to each other

5 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Market

The Karlo Muhar question follows Petrolul around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Karlo Muhar’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

5 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Terms done: Yuval Sade is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Viitorul waiting with a shirt. Nobody at CFR Cluj is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Transfer targets

CFR Cluj agree $64.0K for Silviu Lung

The clubs have shaken hands with Universitatea Craiova; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Match

The wait goes on for CFR Cluj

5 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.

Market

CFR Cluj turn down Viitorul for Viktor Kun

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

Player ratings

Andrei Cordea runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Toni Silić rejects the move

CFR Cluj had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Hajduk Split, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Steven Nsimba

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

Match

4 matches without a goal for CFR Cluj

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 4 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Alibek Aliev 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 CFR Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief