Dragos Nita

Central Midfielder - Pandurii
13 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Dragos Nita

6 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Cosmin Balasa keeps Pandurii in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 11 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad

Dragos Tanase damages knee ligaments — 135 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 135 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.

Match

Pandurii taken apart

0‑3 to FCSB, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.

Market

Universitatea Craiova come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Pandurii did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Ionut Coman breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Federico Bicoro 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. Federico Bicoro has, at Pandurii, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Boardroom

Pandurii close the window on a squad of their own making

6 in and 6 out, and no more changes for months. The manager has what he has, the supporters have their opinion of it, and the table will have the last word.

Transfer targets

Pandurii baulk at the price for Remus Guţea

Voluntari wanted more than $130.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.

The dugout

Ionut Balasa 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Pandurii sell their best player to Gornik Leczna

$13.7M is a serious amount of money and it does not play centre-forward. Everybody in the dressing room knows who used to be looked at when it went wrong.

Match

Cup progress for Pandurii

A 2‑1 win over Voluntari, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Market

Not going: Vlad Nita stays at Pandurii

“I know what people will say. I know what I want, and it is here.” Minsk had the fee agreed and the shirt ready; they did not have the player, and now they will not.

Player ratings

A brace, and Dragos Nita takes the afternoon — 8.47

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Dragos Nita provided it, and the 8.47 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

33 days out for Ionut Coman after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pandurii will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Andrei Mitrita yet — 8.67

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.67 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

The terraces

Supporters turn on the $13.7M sale of Ovidiu Balasa

He is going to Gornik Leczna, the club has $13.7M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Market

Dugopolje come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Pandurii did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market

Ionut Moldovan moves on

Dinamo Bucharest pay $3.2M, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

In brief

1 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad

9 goals for Dragos Nita

The match ball belongs to Dragos Nita, whose 9 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Squad

A day Ovidiu Balasa will not forget

8 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match

Pandurii run riot against Petrolul

28‑0, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Player ratings

A debut Bogdan Keseru will not forget — 10.00

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 4 on the scoresheet, 10.00 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Squad

A day Bogdan Keseru will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market

Pandurii say no — this time

The offer from Young Boys for Ovidiu Balasa was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

3 goals for Ionut Moldovan

The match ball belongs to Ionut Moldovan, whose 3 goals turned a difficult afternoon into a procession.

Player ratings

Ionut Moldovan, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.17

A mark of 8.17 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Transfer targets

Pandurii make their move for Carlos Mora

$2.9M on the table at Universitatea Craiova. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.

In brief