The Pandurii Chronicle
Squad30 Nov 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Cristian Mihaila
41 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
The wait goes on for Pandurii
10 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
Pandurii beaten on the continent
0‑2 against FC Copenhagen, and an evening that measured the gap rather than the ninety minutes. Nothing about it was a disgrace and nothing about it was close.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Dorin Mihaila keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pandurii may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Ionut Maxim was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 25. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Pandurii
Vlad Burca 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.
Match28 Nov 2026
No clean sheets in sight for Pandurii
4 games now with at least two against. The back line has been rearranged, the goalkeeper has been backed publicly, and the goals keep going in anyway.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorin Dragusin 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 dugout30 Nov 2026
Cristian Iancu faces the questions
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Cristian Iancu after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
In brief
- Squad Rodrigo Cunha stays put
- The dugout No place for Mário Junior on the big day
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Daniel Hagi