The CS Tunari Herald
Squad11 Oct 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Jayden Rus
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CS Tunari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
Jayden Rus: 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.” CS Tunari have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Alin Toşca 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.
Boardroom11 Oct 2027
Wages swallow 159% of the CS Tunari income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Squad11 Oct 2027
Tempers go at CS Tunari
Nadil Lamiri 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.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
No hiding place for Adrian Bălan
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Adrian Bălan, and the manager let it.
Market11 Oct 2027
Talks stall between CS Tunari and Leverton Pierre
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
Market11 Oct 2027
No place for Stjepan Pavišić in the plan
“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Stjepan Pavišić has his answer from CS Tunari; what he does with it is the next window’s story.
The dugout11 Oct 2027
João Forelle has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at CS Tunari 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
- Squad “I want to play”: Damien Janela speaks
- Market The Bisnat Mbala story refuses to die
- The dugout Stjepan Pavišić knocks on the manager’s door