Siny Guèye

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Universitatea Cluj
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Marked for Siny Guèye

117 Edition

The Universitatea Cluj Courier

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Match18 Oct 2028

Universitatea Cluj through in the cup

A 3‑1 win over Gloria Bistrița, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Market23 Oct 2028

Rareş Ispas is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Universitatea Cluj is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Words at Universitatea Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mouhamadou Drammeh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The terraces23 Oct 2028

The crowd has taken to Sofiane Tahri

At 21 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match21 Oct 2028

Universitatea Cluj find a way past Botosani

Botosani made Universitatea Cluj work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Universitatea Cluj

Tiberiu Căpuşă 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 dugout23 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of Branimir Mlačić

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Luca Gemello makes it 11 clean sheets

11 shut-outs in 181 appearances. A keeper’s career is counted in games where nothing happened, and none of it happened by accident.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Oucasse Mendy was the difference for Universitatea Cluj

Marked 7.76. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

  • Player ratings Jug Stanojev takes the honours
  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Jug Stanojev has become a man the manager trusts
Back issues
116 Edition

The Universitatea Cluj Courier

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market16 Oct 2028

Only the photograph left for Jonathan Cissé

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Jonathan Cissé will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Universitatea Cluj the goodbyes have quietly begun.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Vladislav Blănuţă

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

Squad16 Oct 2028

Dino Mikanović 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Words exchanged at Universitatea Cluj

Nicolae Pojar 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.

Squad16 Oct 2028

Universitatea Cluj are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Luca Gemello gets picked when it counts

Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Luca Gemello is on it.

Market16 Oct 2028

The Issouf Macalou story refuses to die

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

Squad16 Oct 2028

Siny Guèye: “I am not a substitute”

“I have done everything asked of me in training and it has not changed a thing on a Saturday.” The most familiar complaint in football, and one Universitatea Cluj will have to answer with minutes or with a transfer.

Market16 Oct 2028

The shop window has Jonathan Cissé in it

Universitatea Cluj have let the market know Jonathan Cissé can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

114 Edition

The Universitatea Cluj Courier

2 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad2 Oct 2028

Alexandru Chipciu breaks a bone — 18 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 18 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match30 Sep 2028

The wait goes on for Universitatea Cluj

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market2 Oct 2028

Octavian Vâlceanu is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Universitatea Cluj is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Siny Guèye keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Universitatea Cluj may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Market2 Oct 2028

Daniel Bîrligea wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Universitatea Cluj hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Words at Universitatea Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mouhamadou Drammeh is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad2 Oct 2028

Dorin Codrea 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 Universitatea Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout2 Oct 2028

Luca Gemello 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.

Match30 Sep 2028

Universitatea Cluj hit back inside 1 minutes

Universitatea Craiova held the lead for 1 minutes, which is not long enough to enjoy it. Universitatea Cluj answered before the celebration had properly finished, and the shape of the afternoon changed with it.

In brief

86 Edition

The Universitatea Cluj Courier

20 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market20 Mar 2028

Miguel Silva has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universitatea Cluj they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Transfer targets20 Mar 2028

Mohamed Oukhattou due for a Universitatea Cluj 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.

Boardroom20 Mar 2028

Universitatea Cluj beat the market to Yassine Zakir from Olimpia Satu Mare

Olimpia Satu Mare will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Yassine Zakir has pre-agreed a move to Universitatea Cluj, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Squad20 Mar 2028

A falling-out at Universitatea Cluj

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

Squad20 Mar 2028

Dino Mikanović 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.

Squad20 Mar 2028

Too much change too quickly at Universitatea Cluj

6 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

The dugout20 Mar 2028

No hiding place for Alessandro Murgia

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

The dugout20 Mar 2028

When it matters, Jovo Lukić plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Squad20 Mar 2028

The formation has left Siny Guèye behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. Universitatea Cluj will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief

85 Edition

The Universitatea Cluj Courier

13 Mar 2028
From our football correspondent Steady

Market13 Mar 2028

Jonathan Cissé has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Universitatea Cluj they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Jovo Lukić stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Jovo Lukić and Universitatea Cluj agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Issouf Macalou 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 Universitatea Cluj know it.

Squad13 Mar 2028

Tempers go at Universitatea Cluj

Hamidou Kante 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.

Squad13 Mar 2028

A move Siny Guèye would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Siny Guèye is living that version at Universitatea Cluj, and it tends to show in the first month.

The dugout13 Mar 2028

The manager makes an example of Gabriel Simion

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

The dugout13 Mar 2028

Universitatea Cluj keep their word to Krisztián Hegyi

Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.

The dugout13 Mar 2028

When it matters, Jug Stanojev plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Market13 Mar 2028

Talks stall between Universitatea Cluj and Oucasse Mendy

“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.

In brief