The Steaua Bucharest Herald
Squad18 Sep 2028
A fracture rules Christophe Hérelle out for 157 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Steaua Bucharest will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market18 Sep 2028
Lilian Raillot is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Steaua Bucharest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Market18 Sep 2028
Iannis Pletea 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 Steaua Bucharest can pretend not to have heard.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Steaua Bucharest
Emmanuel Samba 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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A move Samuel Quainoo would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Samuel Quainoo is living that version at Steaua Bucharest, and it tends to show in the first month.
Match16 Sep 2028
Still nobody has beaten Steaua Bucharest
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.
Transfer targets18 Sep 2028
Unirea Slobozia tell Steaua Bucharest: Kaïs Anelka 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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Steaua Bucharest
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bogdan Chipirliu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Market18 Sep 2028
Steaua Bucharest buy the years ahead of Stanisław Kubiak
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.
In brief
- Player ratings Dragoş Nedelcu takes the honours
- The dugout Dorin Mitrita: “We have to be better”
- Market Steaua Bucharest bring in an old head