The Pandurii Chronicle
Market18 Jan 2027
Stefan Mihaila turns Thun down
“It was not right for me. I am not going to explain why to anybody except the people I owe an explanation to.” A deal agreed between two clubs, and a player who declined to be part of it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
A fracture rules Florin Bancu out for 126 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pandurii will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Jan 2027
Voluntari watching Bogdan Deac
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Pandurii have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
David Matei is a medical away from Pandurii
The deal with Universitatea Craiova 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Bogdan Deac 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ovidiu Stanciu 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 targets18 Jan 2027
FCSB tell Pandurii: Joyskim Dawa 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.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Lisandru Olmeta 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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
Mislav Majer has seen enough of Viitorul
“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 Pandurii, and 2 appearances in 21 say he has earned the hearing.
In brief
- The dugout Matei Popa has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Luís Eduardo is a square peg at Pandurii
- Market Nicusor Tanase placed on the list