Nicky Rueck

Defensive Midfielder - Free Agent
4 Oct 2029
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Marked for Nicky Rueck

131 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

29 Jan 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad29 Jan 2029

63 days out for Nicolas Penner after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. CFR Cluj will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Market29 Jan 2029

Terms done: Octavian Vâlceanu is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Pandurii waiting with a shirt. Nobody at CFR Cluj is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

The dugout29 Jan 2029

Adrian Păun: 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.” CFR Cluj have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market29 Jan 2029

Renato Pantalon puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at CFR Cluj, and it is not being withdrawn.

Boardroom29 Jan 2029

Nicky Rueck signs for Viitorul while still at CFR Cluj

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Nicky Rueck has agreed terms with Viitorul for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Transfer targets29 Jan 2029

Too dear: CFR Cluj walk away from Aymen Boutoutaou

$620.0K was the most the club would pay and FCSB were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Squad29 Jan 2029

A falling-out at CFR Cluj

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

Transfer targets29 Jan 2029

Door shut on Benjamin Kanurić

CFR Cluj asked and Petrolul said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad29 Jan 2029

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Reinildo 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.

In brief

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82 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

21 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad21 Feb 2028

A falling-out at CFR Cluj

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

Squad21 Feb 2028

A row about effort at CFR Cluj

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

Loan watch21 Feb 2028

Rareş Gal’s loan is measured in nothing happening

11 clean sheets from 18 appearances at Universitatea Craiova. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.

Squad21 Feb 2028

7 new faces, and CFR Cluj 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.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Assad Al Hamlawi gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Assad Al Hamlawi is on it.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Simão Rocha knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Simão Rocha trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad21 Feb 2028

No place for Nicky Rueck in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation CFR Cluj are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

Market21 Feb 2028

The Simão Rocha question follows CFR Cluj around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Simão Rocha’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout21 Feb 2028

Islam Slimani has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Islam Slimani has written the date down.

In brief

81 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

14 Feb 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad14 Feb 2028

A fracture rules Camora out for 18 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CFR Cluj will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad14 Feb 2028

George Burca out for 26 days

The medical room confirms 26 days on the sidelines for George Burca, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Words exchanged at CFR Cluj

Assad Al Hamlawi 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.

Squad14 Feb 2028

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Aldair Ferreira 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.

Market14 Feb 2028

CFR Cluj buy the years ahead of Nicky Rueck

He is 19, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

When it matters, Simão Rocha plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market14 Feb 2028

The Assad Al Hamlawi question follows CFR Cluj around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Assad Al Hamlawi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

Renato Pantalon knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Renato Pantalon trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout14 Feb 2028

Islam Slimani has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Islam Slimani has written the date down.

In brief