The Pandurii Chronicle
Squad18 Mar 2030
A fracture rules Dragos Balasa out for 118 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pandurii will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
The terraces18 Mar 2030
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.
Squad18 Mar 2030
The knee: Adam Laoine out for 20 days
20 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Pandurii lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Benjámin Cseke wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Pandurii can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Squad18 Mar 2030
Words exchanged at Pandurii
Mihai Chiriches 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 dugout18 Mar 2030
When it matters, Cosmin Bancu 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.
Market18 Mar 2030
Bogdan Marin linked with a move away
The name of Bogdan Marin keeps appearing in other people's back pages. Pandurii say nothing, which says plenty.
The dugout18 Mar 2030
Heriksson Lima knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Heriksson Lima trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market18 Mar 2030
Dorin Stanciu leaves for nothing
Contract settled, hands shaken, no fee changing hands. Dorin Stanciu leaves Pandurii the quiet way, and the wage bill breathes a little easier.
In brief
- Market Daniel Mitrita leaves for nothing
- Market Dragos Marin leaves for nothing
- The dugout The manager plants his flag on Mihai Chiriches