Marked for Adrian Iancu
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad23 Oct 2028
10 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.
Match18 Oct 2028
Sepsi OSK through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Concordia Chiajna, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
A debut Enzo Couturier will not forget — 7.84
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.84 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
The dugout23 Oct 2028
Dani Iglesias: 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.” Sepsi OSK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
No sign of nerves from Costyn Gheorghe at 20 — 7.70
The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Costyn Gheorghe did not need any: 7.70, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad23 Oct 2028
Andrei Vlad 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 Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces23 Oct 2028
He is 20 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.
Match21 Oct 2028
Three points for Sepsi OSK, 1‑0 the final word against FC Argeș in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings23 Oct 2028
19 defensive actions and a clean sheet at the end of them. A defender's afternoon can only be told by what did not happen, which is why nobody makes a highlights package out of one and every manager in the division would take it.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
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Market
Mihai Dolghi is free to find somewhere else
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The dugout
The manager makes an example of Mihai Dolghi
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad24 Jul 2028
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market24 Jul 2028
“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.
The dugout24 Jul 2028
Adrian Iancu: 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.” Sepsi OSK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match22 Jul 2028
The wait goes on for Sepsi OSK
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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Mario Tudose and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Sepsi OSK
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Politehnica Iași have kept their man, and Sepsi OSK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market24 Jul 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Mihai Dragusin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jul 2028
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Marius Coman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad3 Apr 2028
A fracture rules Alibek Aliev out for 60 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sepsi OSK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Match1 Apr 2028
Sepsi OSK make home a hard place to visit
11 without defeat on their own grass. The pitch has not changed; the crowd has — louder earlier, and quicker to sense when the opposition would rather be somewhere else.
Squad3 Apr 2028
Mario Tudose and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad3 Apr 2028
A row about effort at Sepsi OSK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Zoran Mitrov was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout3 Apr 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrei Vlad, and the manager let it.
Squad3 Apr 2028
50 goals in the shirt for Stefan Višić
50 for the club now, each one filed in somebody’s memory with a date and a scoreline. Numbers like this are what supporters argue about in twenty years.
Player ratings3 Apr 2028
Ninety minutes of Zoran Mitrov at his very best
Marked 8.20. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Sepsi OSK.
Loan watch3 Apr 2028
12 clean sheets on loan for Béla Fejér
27 appearances at Gloria Bistrița and the goals have stopped going in. Sepsi OSK lent out a goalkeeper and are watching somebody else’s season get better every week.
Match1 Apr 2028
It needed Zoran Mitrov to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Voluntari, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
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Steady
Squad20 Mar 2028
A fracture rules Alibek Aliev out for 74 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sepsi OSK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Mario Tudose 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.
Squad20 Mar 2028
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zoran Mitrov 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.
Match18 Mar 2028
Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Player ratings20 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad20 Mar 2028
200 times in these colours, in all weathers and under four or five different managers. That kind of service is quietly disappearing from the game.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
The manager’s verdict
“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 1‑2 Ionut Dragusin left the room before anybody could ask which.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Robert Silaghi, and the manager let it.
The dugout20 Mar 2028
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
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Upbeat
Squad13 Mar 2028
Alibek Aliev breaks a bone — 82 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match13 Mar 2028
Sepsi OSK are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 59 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Successful dribbles: 28. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match11 Mar 2028
Nobody wants to play Sepsi OSK right now
3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Mario Tudose 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 Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad13 Mar 2028
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zoran Mitrov 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.
Match11 Mar 2028
Three points for Sepsi OSK, 2‑0 the final word against Botosani in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings13 Mar 2028
Marked 8.39 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
The dugout13 Mar 2028
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Iancu, and the manager let it.
In brief
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Loan watch
Béla Fejér’s loan is measured in nothing happening
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The dugout
The view from the dugout
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Squad
The weekend belonged to Stefan Višić
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad27 Dec 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sepsi OSK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
Hunor Gedő: 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.” Sepsi OSK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Match25 Dec 2027
Still nobody has beaten Sepsi OSK
The unbeaten run reaches 8. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Match25 Dec 2027
No end in sight to Sepsi OSK's wait for a win
4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Sepsi OSK has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Mario Tudose 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 Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad27 Dec 2027
Moses Mawa 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.
Squad27 Dec 2027
A goalkeeper's career is counted in the games nobody scored in, and Andrei Vlad now has 25 of them across 198 appearances. Nothing about that number was luck.
The dugout27 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Adrian Iancu
“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.
Match27 Dec 2027
The half-term report on Sepsi OSK
Position 6, 32 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.
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Steady
Match8 Dec 2027
Sepsi OSK through in the cup
A 2‑2 win over UTA Arad, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Sepsi OSK will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Two goals and a mark of 8.45 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad13 Dec 2027
1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Adrian Iancu is 21, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Mario Tudose 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.
Match11 Dec 2027
Still nobody has beaten Sepsi OSK
The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Marked 8.13 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
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Upbeat
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Andrei Vlad 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.
Squad27 Sep 2027
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Zoran Mitrov 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 terraces27 Sep 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 20-year-old it feels ownership of. Adrian Iancu 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.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
Radu Crişan 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.
Player ratings27 Sep 2027
A mark of 7.82, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
The dugout27 Sep 2027
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Sepsi OSK told Diogo Batista something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad27 Sep 2027
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Sepsi OSK will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
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Steady
Player ratings10 May 2027
Successful dribbles: 41. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Player ratings10 May 2027
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Samuele di Benedetto did not need any: 8.26, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Squad10 May 2027
A row about effort at Sepsi OSK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oskar Pietuszewski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
The terraces10 May 2027
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Samuele di Benedetto 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.
Match8 May 2027
Sepsi OSK caught on 93 minutes
The board was up, the win was priced in, and then CS Dinamo Bucharest scored. There is no worse minute to concede in and the ground emptied in the silence that follows one.
Player ratings10 May 2027
Nobody's fault and entirely his: a goal that goes into the book with his name against it and nothing about it intended. Sepsi OSK deserved better, and so did he.
Market10 May 2027
He is 20, and nobody at Sepsi OSK signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.
The dugout10 May 2027
The manager makes an example of Adnan Aganović
“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.