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The CSC Șelimbăr Chronicle

1 Oct 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Boardroom

Belts tighten at CSC Șelimbăr

The accounts are being read more closely than the results. Wages before ambition is the order of business now, and the manager has been told so.

The dugout

Mathis Esch: 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.” CSC Șelimbăr have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Squad

A falling-out at CSC Șelimbăr

Ludwig Augustinsson and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

George Monea comes home

The shirt still fits. George Monea is back at CSC Șelimbăr, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.

Squad

A row about effort at CSC Șelimbăr

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

The terraces

CSC Șelimbăr supporters have found a favourite in Octavian Cepoi

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Octavian Cepoi has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 139% of the CSC Șelimbăr 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.

Match

CSC Șelimbăr get the job done against Chindia Târgoviște

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

Squad

George Monea signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” George Monea and CSC Șelimbăr agree another 2 years.

In brief