Marked for Samuel Come Ruiz
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Upbeat
Squad18 Jan 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Player ratings18 Jan 2027
Up for the corner, and Nicolas Popescu delivers — 7.97
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Nicolas Popescu scored, was marked 7.97, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
Raul Gherman: 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.” CS Dinamo Bucharest have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
The paperwork begins on Yanis Pîrvu
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. CS Dinamo Bucharest have done the hard part with FC Argeș, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ionuţ Ailenei 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Pierre Patron 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
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Bjelovar have kept their man, and CS Dinamo Bucharest go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
The dugout18 Jan 2027
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andrei Deac kept it short after the 2‑1 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
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Uneasy
The terraces4 Jan 2027
A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The silence upstairs is getting loud at CS Dinamo Bucharest
Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.
Boardroom4 Jan 2027
The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
A brace, and Ednilson Furtado takes the afternoon — 8.56
There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Ednilson Furtado provided it, and the 8.56 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.
The dugout4 Jan 2027
Samuel Come Ruiz: 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.” CS Dinamo Bucharest have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Alin Techereş, 20, steals the show — 7.69
Marked 7.69 at 20, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Market4 Jan 2027
The bid was some way short and CS Dinamo Bucharest did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. CS Dinamo Bucharest have done the hard part with Sepsi OSK, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.46, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
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Uneasy
Match19 Dec 2026
Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 85th, and Chindia Târgoviște spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.
Market21 Dec 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CS Dinamo Bucharest can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings21 Dec 2026
At 37 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.02, and nobody on the pitch better.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
Andrei Zaharia: 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.” CS Dinamo Bucharest have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad21 Dec 2026
At 19 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ionuţ Ailenei 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.
Match19 Dec 2026
A 2‑1 win over Chindia Târgoviște, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
The terraces21 Dec 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Adrian Sârbu has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Words at CS Dinamo Bucharest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Silvian Matei 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.
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Crisis
Match30 Nov 2026
Position 20, 11 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Ionuţ Ailenei and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Match28 Nov 2026
Corvinul Hunedoara left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
156% of the income goes out in wages at CS Dinamo Bucharest
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
The dugout30 Nov 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 1‑3 defeat, delivered by Andrei Deac to a room that had heard them before.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at CS Dinamo Bucharest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Silvian Matei 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.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
The manager makes an example of Mihai Leca
“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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Karamoko Bamba is still being punished for one mistake
Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.
Market30 Nov 2026
Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Ştefan Pănoiu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Alin Techereş, 19, steals the show — 8.28
Marked 8.28 at 19, in a side that makes no allowances for age. He did not need any, and he looked the least nervous man on the pitch.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Adrian Sârbu 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.
Market9 Nov 2026
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at CS Dinamo Bucharest, another week without a signature from Alin Techereş.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Silvian Matei 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 dugout9 Nov 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Andrei Deac kept it short after the 1‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
The dugout9 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Samuel Come Ruiz, and the manager let it.
Squad9 Nov 2026
One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and CS Dinamo Bucharest will feel it on Saturday.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Alin Techereş, 19, is the weekend’s best young player
Measured against every other kid in the division and first among them. The senior award is where CS Dinamo Bucharest would like this to lead.
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Crisis
Squad24 Aug 2026
9 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.
Match19 Aug 2026
Botosani ended it 0‑1. The season narrows to the league now, and everyone in the ground knew it before the final whistle.
Match22 Aug 2026
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at CS Dinamo Bucharest has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samuel Come Ruiz has just signed for CS Dinamo Bucharest, and for once the answer mattered.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
Everything agreed with Farul Constanța, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ionuţ Ailenei 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Pierre Patron was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
FC Bihor Oradea left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.