The Voluntari Sentinel
Market8 Feb 2027
Marvin Schieb asks to leave Voluntari
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Voluntari
Sheriff Sinyan 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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
A row about effort at Voluntari
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Simão Rocha was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets8 Feb 2027
Floriana tell Voluntari: Kenan Dervišagić 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 dugout8 Feb 2027
The manager makes an example of Ion Gheorghe
“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.
Squad8 Feb 2027
Too much change too quickly at Voluntari
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad8 Feb 2027
No place for Tom van den Bos in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Voluntari are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
Market8 Feb 2027
Still no ink between Voluntari and Daniel Carrasco
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Voluntari, another week without a signature from Daniel Carrasco.
Market8 Feb 2027
Voluntari shop where it costs nothing
Antonio Troise signs, and the fee column stays empty. Deals like this look small in July and clever by March — or they are never mentioned again.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Andrei Piţian a promise
- The dugout Steven N'Guessan knocks on the manager’s door
- Market The window shut and George Merloi is still in the building