Adrian Tanase

Left Back - Pandurii
30 Aug 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Adrian Tanase

4 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Pandurii march on in the cup

Voluntari are out and Pandurii go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Match

Pandurii leave it late against Botosani

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Botosani spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Market

Pandurii turn down Dinamo Bucharest for Razvan Deac

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Player ratings

Luca Meirelles, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.93

A mark of 7.93 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market

Manuel Gentile 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 Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adrian Tanase 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Ştefan Bană 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.

The terraces

The crowd has taken to Luca Meirelles

At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Match

Pandurii see off Botosani

Three points for Pandurii, 1‑0 the final word against Botosani in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Pandurii sell Andrei Iancu for $12.0M

Andrei Iancu has left for Young Boys in a $12.0M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

The terraces

Pandurii sell a favourite for $12.0M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Andrei Iancu was one of the reasons people came, and $12.0M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Felipe Pacheco 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.

Squad

Adrian Tanase 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.

Match

Pandurii come up short against Voluntari

Voluntari left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Player ratings

Razvan Deac runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Eyes on Sergiu Coman again

The phone has started ringing about Sergiu Coman again, and this time the name on the line is Voluntari. Pandurii are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Razvan Deac

“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.

Market

Gomel expected to open talks for Ovidiu Stanciu

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pandurii will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

2 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Pandurii sell their best player to Besiktas

$18.9M 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.

Market

Pandurii say no — this time

The offer from Arda for Stefan Nita 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.

Player ratings

Ştefan Bană, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.00

A mark of 8.00 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.

The terraces

Pandurii sell a favourite for $18.9M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Bruno Cavalcante was one of the reasons people came, and $18.9M does not replace that by itself.

Market

Felipe Pacheco wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad

Adrian Tanase signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Adrian Tanase and Pandurii agree another 4 years.

Squad

Andrei Iancu 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

Young Boys expected to open talks for Andrei Iancu

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Pandurii will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

The terraces

Pandurii supporters have found a favourite in Ştefan Bană

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ştefan Bană has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

In brief