David Dumitra

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5 May 2027
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Marked for David Dumitra

14 Edition

The Farul Constanța Herald

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings2 Nov 2026

Alexandru Măţan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 27. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Loan watch2 Nov 2026

David Dumitra has seen enough of Politehnica Iași

“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 Farul Constanța, and 2 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

Match31 Oct 2026

Farul Constanța come up short against CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ionuţ Vînă 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.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Farul Constanța

Ştefan Duţu 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.

The dugout2 Nov 2026

Nicusor Mitrita: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

Squad2 Nov 2026

5 new faces, and Farul Constanța are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Squad2 Nov 2026

Ionuţ Vînă named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Ionuţ Vînă is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

Looking ahead2 Nov 2026

Farul Constanța take on the side everybody is chasing

FCSB arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Farul Constanța Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match3 Oct 2026

After 8 games, Farul Constanța finally taste it again

The first defeat in 8 matches. The manager will say it had to come; the dressing room will say it did not have to come against UTA Arad; the supporters will say both, in that order, all week.

Squad5 Oct 2026

The step up is real for Mario Aioanei

At 21 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Dan Sîrbu did the work nobody counts — 7.15

13 combined actions and 7.15. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

Match3 Oct 2026

UTA Arad take the points off Farul Constanța

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Steve Furtado 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 Farul Constanța this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Oct 2026

A row about effort at Farul Constanța

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Ionuţ Vînă was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Farul Constanța are still strangers to each other

9 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

Loan watch5 Oct 2026

David Dumitra counts the days

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

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Nicusor Mitrita: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

In brief

10 Edition

The Politehnica Iași Herald

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad5 Oct 2026

Real improvement from David Dumitra at Politehnica Iași

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Dumitra is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Tempers go at Politehnica Iași

Daniel Şerbănică 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.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Din Alomerovic 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.

Boardroom5 Oct 2026

Wages eat 163% of everything Politehnica Iași earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Squad5 Oct 2026

100 appearances for Rareş Pop

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Rareş Pop was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. 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.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

The afternoon belonged to Sékou Camara

A mark of 7.14, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Half-satisfied: Marius Balasa on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

João Paulino dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

6 Edition

The Politehnica Iași Herald

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom7 Sep 2026

Window shuts: 14 in, 2 out at Politehnica Iași

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 14 arrived, 2 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market7 Sep 2026

So close: Darius Ghindovean’s move dies late

The fee was agreed and the flight was looked at — and then the phone stopped ringing. Hermannstadt moved on, Darius Ghindovean reports back to Politehnica Iași, and everybody pretends Monday is just Monday.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Real improvement from David Dumitra at Politehnica Iași

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. David Dumitra is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Transfer targets7 Sep 2026

Door shut on Steve Furtado

Politehnica Iași asked and Farul Constanța said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad7 Sep 2026

A falling-out at Politehnica Iași

Sékou Camara and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market7 Sep 2026

Talks stall between Politehnica Iași and Edvinas Gertmonas

“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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Dragoş Iancu 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.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Denis Bujor is no longer first choice

The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Denis Bujor has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.

Market7 Sep 2026

Rareş Pop linked with a move away

The name of Rareş Pop keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Politehnica Iași say nothing, which says plenty.

In brief

4 Edition

The Politehnica Iași Herald

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market24 Aug 2026

Politehnica Iași turn down Oțelul Galați for Ştefan Ştefanovici

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Politehnica Iași baulk at the price for Alexandru Stoian

CFR Cluj wanted more than $410.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Rareş Pop was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 21. 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Words at Politehnica Iași training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Din Alomerovic 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.

Transfer targets24 Aug 2026

Politehnica Iași rebuffed over Aleks Stojaković

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Zagreb have kept their man, and Politehnica Iași go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

The terraces24 Aug 2026

One of their own: Dragoş Iancu

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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Bogdan Istratie the difference as Politehnica Iași beat CSM Slatina

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Bogdan Istratie. 1‑0 against CSM Slatina, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nobody on the pitch touched Bogdan Istratie

7.88, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Politehnica Iași had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Mohammed Umar 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 Politehnica Iași this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

In brief