Jayden Rus

Attacking Midfielder (R) - CS Tunari
21 Feb 2028
Monday
Process

Marked for Jayden Rus

63 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

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.

Squad

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 dugout

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.

Market

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.

Market

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 dugout

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

Back issues
62 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Jayden Rus damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Leverton Pierre leads the rout of Câmpulung Muscel

4‑1, and Leverton Pierre took the headlines on an afternoon when everything CS Tunari tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Player ratings

Leverton Pierre scores twice — 8.54

Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Player ratings

Bisnat Mbala, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.34

A mark of 8.34 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Nadil Lamiri asks to leave CS Tunari

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Adrian Bălan yet — 8.42

At 37 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.42 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match

CS Tunari cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Andreiaş Calcan signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andreiaş Calcan and CS Tunari agree another 2 years.

Squad

A row about effort at CS Tunari

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

In brief

61 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Jayden Rus

32 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Yassine Zakir

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at CS Tunari

Leverton Pierre 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.

Boardroom

CS Tunari counting the cost

The accounts make uncomfortable reading. Wages first and ambition second is the order of business at CS Tunari now.

Match

Nobody wins at CS Tunari

8 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.

Match

CS Tunari get the job done against Metalul Buzău

A 1‑0 win over Metalul Buzău, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Match

Adrian Bălan the difference as CS Tunari beat CSM Slatina

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Adrian Bălan. 1‑0 against CSM Slatina, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

One of those days for Denis Radu

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.23, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

The dugout

No hiding place for Denis Ispas

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

In brief

  • Player ratings Nobody on the pitch touched Adrian Bălan
  • Squad Petar Katalinić: “I am not a substitute”
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
18 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

6 matches without a win for CS Tunari

The run now stands at 6, and the questions being asked around CS Tunari are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

Arthur Mazuy due for a CS Tunari medical

Everything agreed with another club, everything agreed with the player; a doctor is the only person left to persuade. The photograph is a day or two away.

Squad

Petar Katalinić in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at CS Tunari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

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.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 133% 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.

Squad

Sebastian Moroz gifts one

A goalkeeper’s error has no defender behind it to tidy it away. He knew before the ball crossed the line, the crowd knew a second later, and there is nothing anybody can say tonight.

Market

CS Tunari buy the years ahead of Jayden Rus

He is 17, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Jayden Rus signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Jayden Rus and CS Tunari agree another 3 years.

Match

CS Tunari share the spoils with Politehnica Iași

A 1‑1 draw with Politehnica Iași leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief