Daniel Cicaldau

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Pandurii
20 May 2027
Thursday
Process

Marked for Daniel Cicaldau

35 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for George Deac

28 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.

Squad

Michał Bedronka breaks a bone — 49 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 49 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

A falling-out at Pandurii

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

Squad

A row about effort at Pandurii

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dragos Bancu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market

Talks stall between Pandurii and Daniel Cicaldau

“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.

Market

Andrei Stanciu placed on the list

Pandurii have made Andrei Stanciu available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

Back issues
26 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

25 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Ianis Bancu sold

Petrolul arrived with $9.6M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

The terraces

A $9.6M sale, and a town that did not want it

Ianis Bancu has gone, the accounts have $9.6M in them, and the supporters have the feeling of having been sold something themselves. Good business and a good decision are not always the same thing.

Squad

George Deac 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 Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market

As if he never left: Daniel Cicaldau returns

Some transfers need a press campaign. This one needed a shirt with the old number on it. Daniel Cicaldau is a Pandurii player again, and the town has its story of the summer.

Squad

A row about effort at Pandurii

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Dragos Bancu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Sebastian Mailat

Pandurii asked and CFR Cluj said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Transfer targets

Pandurii ask about Heriberto Tavares

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

Squad

Daniel Cicaldau signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Daniel Cicaldau and Pandurii agree another 1 years.

Squad

No place for Daniel Cicaldau in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Pandurii are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

In brief

4 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

The cup run ends for Pandurii

0‑2 against Voluntari, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

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.

Player ratings

Ianis Bancu beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 28. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Market

Daniel Cicaldau asks to leave Pandurii

“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.

Transfer targets

An offer of $1.3M for Marius Corbu

Pandurii have gone to Ferencvaros with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Transfer targets

Catanzaro tell Pandurii: Jason Kodor is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pandurii

George Deac 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.

Match

Pandurii find a way past Botosani

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

Player ratings

Nobody on the pitch touched Sergiu Burca

7.97, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Pandurii had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.

In brief