Daniel Man

Left Wingback - Voluntari
24 May 2029
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Marked for Daniel Man

132 Edition

The Voluntari Sentinel

5 Feb 2029
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad5 Feb 2029

A knee injury of the worst kind for Daniel Burca

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Voluntari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Boardroom5 Feb 2029

Deadline passes with 0 signed and 3 gone

That is the business done at Voluntari until the window opens again. Whether it was enough will be answered on Saturdays rather than in a column, and the first Saturday is close.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Edgar Ié 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 Voluntari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Šime Gržan 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.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

The window shuts on the André Duarte deal

Voluntari ran out of time with FCSB. The paperwork was open when the deadline passed, and a transfer that was almost done is now a transfer that never happened.

Squad5 Feb 2029

Home is on Issa Habri's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Voluntari are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

Transfer targets5 Feb 2029

Voluntari ask about Latrell Aken

A loan enquiry to AZ: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.

Market5 Feb 2029

The clock runs on Daniel Man's contract

6 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.

The dugout5 Feb 2029

The manager makes Issa Habri a promise

Nothing in writing and nothing in public: a word about playing time, given face to face at Voluntari. The team sheets over the next month will show whether it was worth having.

In brief

Back issues
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The Voluntari Sentinel

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market6 Dec 2027

Andrei Piţian asks to leave Voluntari

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Mouhamed Kara Sèye says Voluntari 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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

A falling-out at Voluntari

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

Squad6 Dec 2027

Voluntari lose Adrian Burca

17 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

The manager makes an example of Radu Crişan

“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.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Marvin Schieb 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.

In brief

52 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

26 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad26 Jul 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Gavriil Egorov

70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings26 Jul 2027

Dorin Chiriches runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market26 Jul 2027

Terms done: Cosmin Mihaila is going

Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Viitorul waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Pandurii is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.

Market26 Jul 2027

Pandurii say no — this time

The offer from Fakel for Gavriil Egorov 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.

The terraces26 Jul 2027

Supporters turn on the $2.2M sale of Roberto Corsini

He is going to Dinamo Bucharest, the club has $2.2M 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.

Market26 Jul 2027

Daniel Man puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market26 Jul 2027

Roberto Corsini moves on

Dinamo Bucharest pay $2.2M, 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Tempers go at Pandurii

Claudiu Cicaldau 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.

Squad26 Jul 2027

Daniel Burca 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.

In brief