Răzvan Barstan

Striker - CFR Cluj U20
9 Jul 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Răzvan Barstan

101 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

3 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

The knee: Răzvan Barstan out for 26 days

26 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CFR Cluj lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

CFR Cluj turn down Corvinul Hunedoara for Meriton Korenica

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

Market

Mario Bărăitaru agrees terms with CS Tunari

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CFR Cluj people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Adrian Păun asks to leave CFR Cluj

“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.

Market

Only the photograph left for Yuval Sade

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Yuval Sade will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around CFR Cluj the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Rosen Bozhinov stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Rosen Bozhinov and CFR Cluj agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at CFR Cluj

Oliver Skipp 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

Léo Bolgado 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 targets

FK Csíkszereda tell CFR Cluj: Simon Elisor is not for sale

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.

In brief

Back issues
100 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

26 Jun 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

$11.6M — a new record at CFR Cluj

No footballer has ever cost this club more, and the number will be read out every time he misplaces a pass for the next two years.

Squad

The knee: Răzvan Barstan out for 35 days

35 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. CFR Cluj lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Market

Adrian Frănculescu agrees terms with Concordia Chiajna

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CFR Cluj people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Botosani come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and CFR Cluj did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Eryc Castillo has one foot out of the door

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

The terraces

A $6.2M sale, and a town that did not want it

Andrei Cordea has gone, the accounts have $6.2M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Boardroom

CFR Cluj go back to the board over Beny Moukila MPele

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $363.9K — a club that wants Beny Moukila MPele enough to be asked twice.

Squad

Home is on Sebastian Walukiewicz's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; CFR Cluj are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets

CFR Cluj make their move for Beny Moukila MPele

$330.0K on the table at CS Tunari. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

In brief