Timéo Raffourt

Goalkeeper - Dinamo Bucharest
4 Oct 2029
Thursday
Process

Marked for Timéo Raffourt

163 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

10 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

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.

Market

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 ratings

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.

Match

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Match

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 ratings

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 ratings

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

Back issues
162 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

3 Sep 2029
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

4 goals for Federico Viñas

The match ball belongs to Federico Viñas, whose 4 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Match

No mercy from Dinamo Bucharest

Pandurii will want this one forgotten quickly: 5‑0, every duel lost, and a long ride home. Dinamo Bucharest were ruthless in the way good sides are ruthless.

Market

Kenley Milien has said yes to Bhayangkara Presisi

The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Dinamo Bucharest have lost him in all but the paperwork.

Boardroom

Dinamo Bucharest close the window on a squad of their own making

18 in and 7 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Market

Anderson Prestes has one foot out of the door

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

Match

Nobody wants to play Dinamo Bucharest right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad

Federico Viñas 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 Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Federico Viñas was on a different afternoon to everybody else

9.80. 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.

Squad

A row about effort at Dinamo Bucharest

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

In brief