Andrei Man

Central Defender - Petrolul
28 Oct 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Andrei Man

13 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

11 matches without a win for Petrolul

The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Petrolul are no longer polite ones.

Player ratings

Adrian Mazilu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Nicusor Maxim 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.

Squad

Ovidiu Hagi 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.

Squad

Petrolul pick somebody else ahead of José Ramírez Agudelo

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Squad

Andrei Man has to sit this one out

A booking nobody needed, on a night the game was already won. Petrolul lose a player for the most avoidable reason there is.

In brief

Back issues
11 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

12 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Petrolul's wait for a win

9 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Petrolul has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Petrolul sink to position 9

10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Market

Andrei Man hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Petrolul can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Bogdan Keseru 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.

Player ratings

Nicusor Maxim runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 24. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Player ratings

Ionut Bancu scored one and made one — 7.76

Two of the goals had his name somewhere on them, which is the afternoon a manager wants from anybody asked to both create and finish. 7.76, and 2 involvements.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Nicusor Maxim 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.

Match

Petrolul come up short against FCSB

FCSB left with the points after a 2‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Loan watch

George Coman has seen enough of Dinamo Bucharest

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Petrolul, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.

In brief