The Pandurii Chronicle
Squad18 Jan 2027
Idrissa Dioh damages knee ligaments — 102 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 102 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.
Match18 Jan 2027
Pandurii sink to position 10
8 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Ianis Marin breaks a bone — 47 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 47 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market18 Jan 2027
Razvan Iancu 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 The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Sofian Attaba arrives at the club he grew up with
Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Sofian Attaba has, at Pandurii, and the first month will show what that does to a man.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Words exchanged at Pandurii
Razvan Hagi 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.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Door shut on Ante Aralica
Pandurii asked and Lokomotiv Sofia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Transfer targets18 Jan 2027
Pandurii try to borrow Mate Antunović
Lokomotiva Zagreb have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.
Market18 Jan 2027
Pandurii sign Sammy Henia-Kamau, one for the future
Sammy Henia-Kamau is 20, and Pandurii have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.
In brief
- Market Pandurii buy the years ahead of Sofian Attaba
- The dugout No hiding place for Vlad Keseru
- Market Bogdan Man linked with a move away