Ionuţ Creţa

Right Back - Gloria Bistrița U20
24 Mar 2029
Saturday
Process
Overview Personal Contract News 4 Transfers Relations Events 61 Awards Matches History

Marked for Ionuţ Creţa

79 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

31 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad31 Jan 2028

Ionuţ Creţa breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market31 Jan 2028

Sergiu Pîrvulescu 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 Gloria Bistrița can pretend not to have heard.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

Mihăiţă Lemnaru keeps the receipts

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

Squad31 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Gloria Bistrița

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

Squad31 Jan 2028

Robert Sălceanu 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.

Transfer targets31 Jan 2028

CFR Cluj tell Gloria Bistrița: Dejan Iliev 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.

Match29 Jan 2028

A bad afternoon for Gloria Bistrița against Olimpia Satu Mare

0‑2 to Olimpia Satu Mare, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

Robert Sălceanu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout31 Jan 2028

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑2 defeat, delivered by George Man to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

Back issues
78 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

24 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad24 Jan 2028

A fracture rules Ionuţ Creţa out for 24 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Gloria Bistrița will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Tempers go at Gloria Bistrița

Hakim Abdallah 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.

Squad24 Jan 2028

A row about effort at Gloria Bistrița

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

Transfer targets24 Jan 2028

Door shut on Maksymilian Stangret

Gloria Bistrița asked and GKS Tychy said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

The dugout24 Jan 2028

Sergiu Pîrvulescu gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout24 Jan 2028

Half-satisfied: George Man on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Squad24 Jan 2028

Jean-Paul Bayiha is a square peg at Gloria Bistrița

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

The dugout24 Jan 2028

The manager has not finished forgetting Paul Chiorean's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Match22 Jan 2028

No goals between Gloria Bistrița and Concordia Chiajna

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Concordia Chiajna will be the happier side with the point.

In brief

77 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

17 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Jan 2028

32 days out for Ionuţ Creţa after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Gloria Bistrița will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

Kacper Sommerfeld: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Gloria Bistrița have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad17 Jan 2028

Robert Sălceanu 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.

Transfer targets17 Jan 2028

Gloria Bistrița rebuffed over Árpád Tordai

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

The terraces17 Jan 2028

One of their own: Marco Popescu

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match15 Jan 2028

Octavian Popescu the difference as Gloria Bistrița beat Câmpulung Muscel

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Octavian Popescu. 1‑0 against Câmpulung Muscel, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

The dugout17 Jan 2028

No hiding place for Radu Crişan

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

Squad17 Jan 2028

Home is on Štěpán Jaroslav Vodolán's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Gloria Bistrița are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Squad17 Jan 2028

9 new faces, and Gloria Bistrița are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Octavian Popescu
  • Transfer targets A loan move for Jean-Paul Bayiha is in the works
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
76 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

10 Jan 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad10 Jan 2028

Ionuţ Creţa breaks a bone — 40 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 40 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad10 Jan 2028

A falling-out at Gloria Bistrița

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

Squad10 Jan 2028

Words at Gloria Bistrița training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Robert Sălceanu 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.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Sepsi OSK tell Gloria Bistrița: David Ilie 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.

Squad10 Jan 2028

Home is on Soufiane Jebari's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Gloria Bistrița are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

The dugout10 Jan 2028

The manager makes an example of Kacper Sommerfeld

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings10 Jan 2028

Hakim Abdallah was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 15. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.

Transfer targets10 Jan 2028

Gloria Bistrița ask about Jude Mamman

A loan enquiry to Barau: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Match8 Jan 2028

Octavian Popescu rescues a point for Gloria Bistrița

It needed Octavian Popescu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 1‑1 against Metalul Buzău, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

In brief