Jackson De Sousa

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Free Agent
5 Jun 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Jackson De Sousa

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The Unirea Slobozia Post

20 Nov 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Unirea Slobozia sink to position 15

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Jackson De Sousa hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Unirea Slobozia can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Tempers go at Unirea Slobozia

Dávid Krčík 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.

Squad

Words at Unirea Slobozia training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihăiţă Lemnaru 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 dugout

David Ciubăncan 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 David Ciubăncan trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market

Mihăiţă Lemnaru is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Unirea Slobozia has been clear about where Mihăiţă Lemnaru stands, which is more than many ever get.

The dugout

Cristian Ponde 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 Cristian Ponde is on it.

Looking ahead

David Ciubăncan faces his old club

UTA Arad next, and one man in the Unirea Slobozia dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Andrei Dorobanţu talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Unirea Slobozia know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

In brief

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The Unirea Slobozia Post

15 May 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Rijad Sadiku breaks a bone — 61 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 61 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Rúben Cardoso has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Unirea Slobozia they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Silviu Balaure 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 Unirea Slobozia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Kryštof Daněk 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.

Market

Talks stall between Unirea Slobozia and Denis Rusu

“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.

Squad

Valentin Creţu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Valentin Creţu commits to Unirea Slobozia for another 2 years.

Market

Unirea Slobozia buy the years ahead of Jackson De Sousa

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

The dugout

When it matters, Silviu Balaure 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.

The dugout

Denis Rusu asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief