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The Universitatea Cluj Courier

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Petr Mirvald says Universitatea Cluj went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market16 Oct 2028

Ştefan Opriş asks to leave Universitatea 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Jug Stanojev 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Oliver Pickles 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 Universitatea Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Jug Stanojev has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Universitatea Cluj will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Emil Frederiksen 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 Emil Frederiksen trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Market16 Oct 2028

The Mouhamadou Drammeh talk will not go away

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

Market16 Oct 2028

Universitatea Cluj put Oucasse Mendy up for sale

The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Oucasse Mendy may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.

Squad16 Oct 2028

“I want to play”: Daniel Ratiu speaks

“I respect the manager and I am not going to sit here and pretend I am happy.” It is the most common sentence in football and it has never once been the end of a story.

In brief

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The Universitatea Cluj Courier

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market19 Jul 2027

Costin Ghiocel asks to leave Universitatea 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.

Market19 Jul 2027

Universitatea Cluj turn down Metalul Buzău for Dorin Codrea

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

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Eliel Peretz will not be coming to Universitatea Cluj

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Hapoel Beer Sheva is saying, and nobody at Universitatea Cluj is enjoying the guessing.

Boardroom19 Jul 2027

5 academy graduates step up at Universitatea Cluj

Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.

Squad19 Jul 2027

A row about effort at Universitatea Cluj

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

Transfer targets19 Jul 2027

Universitatea Cluj rebuffed over Nikos Athanasiou

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

Squad19 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Universitatea Cluj

Virgiliu Postolachi 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.

Market19 Jul 2027

Nicusor Coman steps up from the Universitatea Cluj academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Nicusor Coman has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market19 Jul 2027

Paul Burca steps up from the Universitatea Cluj academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paul Burca has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

In brief