Mihai Deac

Striker - Petrolul
4 Oct 2026
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Marked for Mihai Deac

6 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match5 Sep 2026

Chastening afternoon for Petrolul

A 1‑6 beating by Dinamo Bucharest was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Match7 Sep 2026

Petrolul are in real trouble now

Position 8, 6 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Market7 Sep 2026

Mihai Deac puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Petrolul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A first appearance Sergiu Coman will want to forget — 5.72

Everybody's debut is one of two stories and this was the other one. 5.72, and the only consolation available is that nobody's career has ever been decided by ninety minutes in a shirt he had just been given.

Match5 Sep 2026

Petrolul are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 6 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Paulo Costa

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Marius Iancu 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 Petrolul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match5 Sep 2026

7 goals as Petrolul and Dinamo Bucharest go for it

Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 7 goals between Petrolul and Dinamo Bucharest, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.

Market7 Sep 2026

Eyes on Nicusor Mitrita again

The phone has started ringing about Nicusor Mitrita again, and this time the name on the line is Orenburg. Petrolul are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

No sign of nerves from Nicusor Mitrita at 19 — 8.04

The hardest thing about being 19 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Nicusor Mitrita did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market31 Aug 2026

Ciprian Dragusin hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Petrolul can pretend not to have heard.

Market31 Aug 2026

Petrolul say no — this time

The offer from Orsha for Mihai Deac was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Dorin Bancu 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 Petrolul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match29 Aug 2026

Petrolul leaking at the back

5 matches, two or more conceded in every one of them. Sides that create as much as this can live with it for a while. Nobody lives with it forever.

Match29 Aug 2026

Petrolul come up short against CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Bogdan Stanciu 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Ionut Stanciu 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

George Dragusin out for 20 days

The medical room confirms 20 days on the sidelines for George Dragusin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.

In brief

4 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 Aug 2026

Petrolul leave it late against Viitorul

Ninety minutes of very little, and then everything at once. The winner arrived in the 89th, and Viitorul spent what remained of the match appealing to the referee rather than chasing the ball.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A brace, and Adrian Tanase takes the afternoon — 8.30

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Adrian Tanase provided it, and the 8.30 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market24 Aug 2026

Universitatea Craiova come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Petrolul did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nicusor Mitrita, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 8.16

A mark of 8.16 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market24 Aug 2026

Paul Bancu asks to leave Petrolul

“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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Petrolul

Dorin Bancu 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Petrolul find a way past Viitorul

Viitorul made Petrolul work for it, but the scoreboard read 4‑3 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Marius Iancu 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

No clean sheets in sight for Petrolul

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.

In brief