The Dinamo Bucharest Herald
Squad10 Sep 2029
The knee: Svetoslav Kovachev out for 52 days
52 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Dinamo Bucharest lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market10 Sep 2029
Timéo Raffourt agrees terms with Dinamo Makhachkala
The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around Dinamo Bucharest people have started saying his name in the past tense.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Vintage George Puşcaş — 8.05
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.05, and nobody on the pitch better.
Match8 Sep 2029
Dinamo Bucharest cannot stop winning
4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.
Squad10 Sep 2029
A falling-out at Dinamo Bucharest
Federico Viñas and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad10 Sep 2029
George Puşcaş 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.
Match8 Sep 2029
Dinamo Bucharest see off Petrolul
Three points for Dinamo Bucharest, 2‑0 the final word against Petrolul in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Nobody could get near Federico Viñas
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings10 Sep 2029
Aaron Collins was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.21. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
In brief
- Looking ahead All roads lead to FCSB
- Squad Dinamo Bucharest are still strangers to each other
- The dugout Alberto Soro gets it from the manager