Marked for Cristian Nita
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Adrian Man 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Both jobs done by Adrian Man — 6.89
A midfielder is measured on whether the team functions when he is on the pitch, which is nearly impossible to see and completely obvious in retrospect. 12 actions, 6.89, and a manager who will not be substituting him again in a hurry.
Match26 Sep 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Cristian Nita. 1‑0 against CFR Cluj, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad28 Sep 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Cristhian Subero dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Back issues
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Steady
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market31 Aug 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market31 Aug 2026
Petrolul pay $360.0K, 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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
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.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.67 on the card, and the Pandurii support went home talking about one name.
Squad31 Aug 2026
It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.
Match29 Aug 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Dinamo Bucharest leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Gévero Markiet dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
In brief
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Squad
The division's best last weekend was a Pandurii man
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Player ratings
Cristian Nita runs at them all day
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Astra 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Cristian Nita, and the manager let it.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Adrian Man 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
7.62, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Pandurii had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrei Chiriches dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The division's best last weekend was a Pandurii man
It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Dorin Chiriches was the best thing in any of them.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match15 Aug 2026
Point won or two lost for Pandurii?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Voluntari? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 12 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.
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Upbeat
Match8 Aug 2026
3‑0, and Dorin Chiriches took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Pandurii tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market10 Aug 2026
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 ratings10 Aug 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.13 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Market10 Aug 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Cristian Moldovan reports back to Pandurii with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dorin Chiriches and Pandurii agree another 4 years.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorin Chiriches 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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrei Chiriches, and the manager let it.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Adrian Man 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.
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
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Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Istra 1961 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Nedelcearu 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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrei Maxim
“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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ciprian Balasa and Pandurii agree another 1 years.