Yahya Jlidi

Attacking Midfielder (R) - CFR Cluj
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67 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

8 Nov 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad8 Nov 2027

A falling-out at CFR Cluj

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

Player ratings8 Nov 2027

Vlad Coman runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Bakary Haïdara makes the wrong kind of headline

Dealt with internally, which is the phrase a club uses when it would rather nobody asked twice. He will be fined, he will apologise, and he will play on Saturday.

Squad8 Nov 2027

A row about effort at CFR Cluj

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

The dugout8 Nov 2027

Zakhar Fedorov 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.

Squad8 Nov 2027

Yahya Jlidi wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and CFR Cluj know it.

The dugout8 Nov 2027

Half-satisfied: Dorin Balasa on the draw

“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.

Match6 Nov 2027

CFR Cluj draw a blank against Petrolul

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Petrolul defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Market8 Nov 2027

The Stefan Mihaila story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stefan Mihaila signs something — a contract at CFR Cluj or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

The dugout13 Sep 2027

Kasper Boogaard says CFR Cluj went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Match13 Sep 2027

CFR Cluj refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 14 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad13 Sep 2027

A falling-out at CFR Cluj

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

Squad13 Sep 2027

The step up is real for Yahya Jlidi

At 18 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Match11 Sep 2027

A bad afternoon for CFR Cluj against Universitatea Craiova

0‑1 to Universitatea Craiova, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Mihai Popescu 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.

Player ratings13 Sep 2027

Nobody could get near Andrei Cordea

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Stefan Iancu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Stefan Iancu and CFR Cluj agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

The dugout13 Sep 2027

The view from the dugout

“We will look at it, we will learn from it, and we go again.” The three sentences every manager keeps for a 0‑1 defeat, delivered by Dorin Balasa to a room that had heard them before.

In brief

55 Edition

The Angers SCO Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad16 Aug 2027

The step up is real for Diogo Sousa

At 21 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad16 Aug 2027

Tempers go at Angers SCO

Louis Mouton 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.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Angers SCO

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

Squad16 Aug 2027

Rominigue Kouamé has improved at 30, which nobody expected

Careers are supposed to plateau and then decline, and the players who ignore that are always the ones who were listening on the training ground. 3 points of it, over months, at an age where the direction normally only goes one way.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Door shut on Guillaume Restes

Angers SCO asked and Paris Saint-Germain said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Market16 Aug 2027

Olympique Akbou watching Noah Jauny

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Angers SCO have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

No hiding place for Moussa Maréga

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

The dugout16 Aug 2027

Emmanuel Biumla asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

The dugout16 Aug 2027

Abdoulaye Bamba has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Abdoulaye Bamba has written the date down.

In brief