The Astra Chronicle
Market15 Feb 2027
Ionut Chiriches asks to leave Astra
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Astra
Daniel Tanase 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Astra training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Razvan Man 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Astra lose Cosmin Coman
15 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
Daniel Nedelcearu has seen enough of Universitatea Craiova
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Astra, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad15 Feb 2027
When it matters, Adrian Deac 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.
In brief
- Market The Ionut Chiriches story refuses to die
- Market Astra borrow Antonio Dumitru
- Market The market said no: Ovidiu Chiriches stays put