Matei Popa

Goalkeeper - FCSB U20
13 Dec 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Matei Popa

4 Edition

The FCSB Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

David Kiki puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at FCSB, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

No hiding place for Ştefan Târnovanu

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

Match

FCSB find a way past Voluntari

Voluntari made FCSB work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad

FCSB lose Matei Popa

27 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Market

FCSB bring in an old head

Dodô is 35 and has run out of things to prove. What he has left is where to stand, when to slow it down and what to say at half-time, and none of that is on a fitness chart.

Market

The Siyabonga Ngezana talk will not go away

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

Squad

Mamadou Thiam 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 Mamadou Thiam trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

Squad

Somebody is after Marcelo’s shirt

A new face in his position, and Marcelo suddenly has to win back what he thought he owned. FCSB have promised nothing — clubs rarely do at this stage.

Market

The shop window has Baba Alhassan in it

FCSB have let the market know Baba Alhassan can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief