The CS Afumați Herald
Squad5 Jul 2027
108 days out for Ionuţ Zaina after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. CS Afumați will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Transfer targets5 Jul 2027
Erik Lang is a medical away from CS Afumați
The deal with CFR Cluj is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Wilfried Ndollo Bille 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at CS Afumați
Aleksa Čolović 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.
Boardroom5 Jul 2027
CS Afumați sign 3 boys into the academy
None of them will be seen by anybody outside the training ground for three years, most of them will never play a senior match, and one of them might change the club. That is the whole proposition, and it is why academies exist.
Squad5 Jul 2027
Seybou Konaté slips down the pecking order
The demotion a club never announces and a dressing room always notices. Seybou Konaté is further from the side than he was, and the reason will not be given until he asks.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
No hiding place for Alexandru Păun
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Alexandru Păun, and the manager let it.
The dugout5 Jul 2027
The manager makes Rareş Bălan a promise
Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at CS Afumați. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.
Market5 Jul 2027
Still no ink between CS Afumați and Nicola Camolese
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at CS Afumați, another week without a signature from Nicola Camolese.
In brief
- Match Nothing left to play for but pride at CS Afumați
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Aksel Eidsvik