Bryan Meyo

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Pandurii
26 Nov 2027
Friday
Process

Marked for Bryan Meyo

66 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

1 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Edgar Ié out for 39 days

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

Market

Cosmin Deac 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 Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Vlad Maxim 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 Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Daniel Graovac wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Pandurii can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Match

Borislav Rupanov sends Pandurii past Botosani

It finished 1‑0, and it was Borislav Rupanov’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Pandurii.

Player ratings

One of those days for Borislav Rupanov

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

Yannick Semedo left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Yannick Semedo will call it something else in private.

Market

Talks stall between Pandurii and Pedro Pinho

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

The dugout

Pandurii pick somebody else ahead of Yannick Semedo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

In brief

Back issues
65 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

25 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

The knee: Edgar Ié out for 46 days

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

Match

Mihai Nita lights up a European night for Pandurii

1‑1 against ADO Den Haag, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mihai Nita was at the centre of the description.

Match

Borislav Rupanov leads the rout of Voluntari

3‑0, and Borislav Rupanov took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Pandurii tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Borislav Rupanov scores twice — 9.08

Two goals and a mark of 9.08 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pandurii

Răzvan Marin 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

Cosmin Keseru 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Borislav Rupanov

He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Mihai Nita at his very best

Marked 8.43. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pandurii.

The dugout

Cosmin Keseru left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Cosmin Keseru will call it something else in private.

In brief

28 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

8 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Pandurii are top

31 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Market

Bogdan Marin is on his way

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

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Edgar Ié 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

Pedro Pinho 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.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Alexandr Degtev

Pandurii asked and Sochi 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

Bryan Meyo signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Bryan Meyo commits to Pandurii for another 4 years.

Market

Still no ink between Pandurii and Yannick Semedo

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Pandurii, another week without a signature from Yannick Semedo.

Market

Pandurii sign Daniel Mabomba, one for the future

Daniel Mabomba is 20, and Pandurii have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

The dugout

Edgar Ié 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 Pandurii, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

10 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Pandurii come up short in Europe

1‑2 away to the standard of Sion. Nobody will pretend this was a scandal; the gap is real, it is measurable, and closing it is a project rather than a team talk.

Match

The wait goes on for Pandurii

4 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.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Dorin Bancu — 7.98

Marked 7.98. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Squad

Bryan Meyo gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Bryan Meyo has just signed for Pandurii, and for once the answer mattered.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Pedro Pinho 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Radu Negru 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

Calvin Onyekuru counts the days

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

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Marc Filip

“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.

The dugout

No place for Edgar Ié on the big day

He found out with everybody else, an hour before kick-off, from a sheet of paper on a wall. Nobody at Pandurii pretended it was anything other than a decision about him.

In brief