Immanuel Hess

Goalkeeper - Free Agent
3 Jul 2029
Tuesday
Process

Marked for Immanuel Hess

103 Edition

The Concordia Chiajna Courier

17 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Tempers go at Concordia Chiajna

Mihai Bălaşa 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.

Transfer targets

Concordia Chiajna rebuffed over Heriberto Tavares

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universitatea Craiova have kept their man, and Concordia Chiajna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

Ousman Marong 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 targets

Concordia Chiajna ask about Denis Ciobotariu

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

Transfer targets

Concordia Chiajna ask about Alexandru Pop

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

The dugout

Nicolae Carnat knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Concordia Chiajna, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Darius Grigore talk will not go away

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

The dugout

The manager makes Darius Grigore a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Concordia Chiajna. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

Market

Concordia Chiajna and Immanuel Hess are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

In brief

Back issues
84 Edition

The Concordia Chiajna Courier

6 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Ryan Bakayoko scores twice — 8.79

Two goals and a mark of 8.79 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match

Whatever happens, Concordia Chiajna do not lose

11 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.

Squad

Danylo Kucher stands alone

6 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

The dugout

Mario Tache keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at Concordia Chiajna

Nicolae Carnat 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.

Squad

Bjørnar Aaland Eggum is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 18 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.

Squad

A move Immanuel Hess would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Immanuel Hess is living that version at Concordia Chiajna, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout

Nicolae Carnat 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.

Match

Honours even between Concordia Chiajna and CSM Reșița

2‑2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.

In brief