Duje Perisic

Goalkeeper - Pandurii U20
18 Oct 2027
Monday
Process

Marked for Duje Perisic

63 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

11 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Duje Perisic breaks a bone — 16 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 16 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Words exchanged at Pandurii

Dragos Balasa and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

The dugout

Dorin Mihaila has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Pandurii will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

The dugout

No hiding place for Séga Sanogo

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Séga Sanogo, and the manager let it.

Market

Talks stall between Pandurii and Daniel Bancu

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Market

The Cosmin Bancu story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Cosmin Bancu signs something — a contract at Pandurii or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Daniel Bancu has been promised minutes

A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Daniel Bancu has written the date down.

Squad

Lukas Debuchy remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Pandurii would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

The dugout

Ianis Keseru knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Pandurii, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief

Back issues
62 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

4 Oct 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

The mood at Pandurii has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

No end in sight to Pandurii's wait for a win

13 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pandurii has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Pandurii

0‑3 against Viitorul, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

23 days out for Duje Perisic after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pandurii will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the Pandurii boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Dragos Balasa 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.

Squad

A move Lukas Debuchy would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Lukas Debuchy is living that version at Pandurii, and it tends to show in the first month.

Match

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.

Squad

Mihai Burca 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.

In brief

61 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

27 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

No end in sight to Pandurii's wait for a win

12 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pandurii has to find a result from somewhere.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Pandurii

Position 10 and 2 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Match

Nowhere to hide for Pandurii

0‑3 against Astra, and no complaints that would survive the replay. The manager spoke about character afterwards; the terraces used shorter words.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Dorin Mihaila

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

31 days out for Duje Perisic after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Pandurii will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Dragos Balasa 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 ratings

Bogdan Marin was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 19. 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.

The dugout

Dorin Mihaila gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mihai Burca 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.

In brief