The Viitorul Sentinel
Match4 Sep 2027
Nobody wins at Viitorul
14 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Tempers go at Viitorul
Paul Chiriches 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.
Player ratings6 Sep 2027
Andrei Cicaldau runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad6 Sep 2027
Evgeny Markov 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.
Squad6 Sep 2027
A place in the month's best eleven for Paul Coman
Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Paul Coman has come out of that comparison in the side, and Viitorul have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.
Match4 Sep 2027
Viitorul share the spoils with Universitatea Craiova
A 1‑1 draw with Universitatea Craiova leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
Squad6 Sep 2027
When it matters, Cristian Nedelcearu plays
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.
Market6 Sep 2027
The market said no: Sergiu Man stays put
Viitorul opened the door and nobody walked through it. So Sergiu Man stays — listed, trained, and available — while both sides mark the days to January on the same calendar.
Market6 Sep 2027
Ianis Coman leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Ianis Coman leaves Viitorul the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Cosmin Burca leaves for nothing
- Player ratings Claudiu Marin spends the afternoon fouling
- Loan watch Viitorul think about pulling Nicusor Hagi back