Petar Copić

Defensive Midfielder - Pandurii
17 Oct 2032
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Marked for Petar Copić

301 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

3 May 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad3 May 2032

The knee: Andrei Dumiter out for 30 days

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

Boardroom3 May 2032

Interim Coach has until the next board meeting

What was said behind closed doors has now been said in front of a microphone. Everybody at Pandurii can do the arithmetic, including the man it is aimed at.

Squad3 May 2032

Andrei Dumiter stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Andrei Dumiter and Pandurii agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad3 May 2032

A falling-out at Pandurii

Dragos Maxim and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad3 May 2032

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Daniel Burca is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout3 May 2032

No hiding place for Adrian Caragea

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Caragea, and the manager let it.

Market3 May 2032

Petar Copić is free to find somewhere else

“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Pandurii has been clear about where Petar Copić stands, which is more than many ever get.

Market3 May 2032

Dorin Chiriches linked with a move away

The name of Dorin Chiriches keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pandurii say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout3 May 2032

Amadu Baldé has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Amadu Baldé has written the date down.

In brief

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The Pandurii Chronicle

4 Aug 2031
From our football correspondent Steady

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

Tarik Hamamioglu turns down Pandurii

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: OFI keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad4 Aug 2031

Petar Copić is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 23 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Player ratings4 Aug 2031

Daniel Burca runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 22. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad4 Aug 2031

A falling-out at Pandurii

Dragos Maxim and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad4 Aug 2031

A row about effort at Pandurii

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

Squad4 Aug 2031

A late step up for Peter Quispel

At 25 the improving is meant to be over. It is not: 3 points better than the mark taken at the start of the year, which is the sort of thing that happens to players who take the boring parts of the job seriously.

Transfer targets4 Aug 2031

Door shut on Franco Calderón

Pandurii asked and Deportivo Municipal said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings4 Aug 2031

A masterclass from Andrei Dumiter

Marked 8.12 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Market4 Aug 2031

No place for Claudiu Cicaldau in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Claudiu Cicaldau has his answer from Pandurii; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

258 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

7 Jul 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market7 Jul 2031

Boukary Coulibaly has said yes to Dinamo Bucharest

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

Match7 Jul 2031

Pandurii refuse to drop out of the race

Position 3, 34 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Transfer targets7 Jul 2031

Pandurii agree $520.0K for Ionut Mitrita

The clubs have shaken hands with Universitatea Craiova; the player has not yet. Personal terms are next, and personal terms are where more deals die than anybody prints.

Market7 Jul 2031

Alexandru Maxim 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 Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets7 Jul 2031

The paperwork begins on Tomás Ribeiro

A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Pandurii have done the hard part with Universitatea Craiova, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.

The dugout7 Jul 2031

Siebe van Langen keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pandurii may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Transfer targets7 Jul 2031

Ionut Mitrita turns down Pandurii

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Universitatea Craiova keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad7 Jul 2031

The step up is real for Petar Copić

At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad7 Jul 2031

Words exchanged at Pandurii

Richard Monday Ubong and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

In brief

249 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

5 May 2031
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad5 May 2031

Dragos Maxim breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad5 May 2031

Daniel Burca stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Burca and Pandurii agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad5 May 2031

Tempers go at Pandurii

Dragos Maxim 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.

Squad5 May 2031

Daniel Burca 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.

Market5 May 2031

Daniel Burca linked with a move away

The name of Daniel Burca keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pandurii say nothing, which says plenty.

The dugout5 May 2031

Boukary Coulibaly has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Pandurii 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.

In brief