Daniel Coman

Right Forward - Viitorul
6 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Daniel Coman

5 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Transfer targets

Arsenal Tula tell Viitorul: Edarlyn Reyes is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Squad

Adrian Rus 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 Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Samad Popoola gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Samad Popoola has just signed for Viitorul, and for once the answer mattered.

The dugout

Luka Kukić 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.

Match

Viitorul come up short against Universitatea Craiova

Universitatea Craiova left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Nicusor Chiriches left the room before anybody could ask which.

Transfer targets

Viitorul try to borrow Cauan Barros

Vasco da Gama have been asked whether they would lend him. Loans are agreed quickly or not at all, and this one will be one or the other by the weekend.

Squad

Samad Popoola stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Samad Popoola and Viitorul agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Player ratings

Daniel Coman was unplayable

Successful dribbles: 14. 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.

In brief

Back issues
4 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Cup progress for Viitorul

A 1‑1 win over Botosani, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Calvin Onyekuru could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.15

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.15, 1 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad

Daniel Coman takes the match ball home

3 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Squad

Laurenţiu Popescu wins the shoot-out

1 kept out from twelve yards, and a stadium that will describe each of them for twenty years. A goalkeeper needs one night like this in a career, and this was it.

Market

Viitorul pay Astra $1.0M for a proper upgrade

Astra did not want to sell and the number is why they did. $1.0M for Daniel Coman, and the expectation that arrives with him is the kind no amount of settling-in period softens.

Transfer targets

Viitorul rebuffed over Vlad Maxim

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Pandurii have kept their man, and Viitorul go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Boardroom

Viitorul go back to the board over Darius Fălcuşan

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $50.1K — a club that wants Darius Fălcuşan enough to be asked twice.

Squad

A falling-out at Viitorul

Adrian Rus and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Transfer targets

Viitorul bid $46.0K for Darius Fălcuşan

The offer went to Universitatea Craiova this week and it is theirs to answer. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loud the door closes.

In brief

3 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Viitorul say no — this time

The offer from HNK Rijeka for Luka Kukić 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.

Transfer targets

$1.0M settles it between the clubs for Daniel Coman

Astra have accepted the money. What Viitorul do not yet have is the man, and between here and the photograph is a conversation about wages that both sides are dreading.

Transfer targets

Calvin Onyekuru is a medical away from Viitorul

The deal with Pandurii is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at Viitorul

Domagoj Antolić and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Player ratings

Ianis Tarbă runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Viitorul sign Casian Soare, one for the future

Casian Soare is 19, and Viitorul have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Squad

No place for Gabriel David in the new shape

He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Viitorul are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.

The dugout

Nicusor Chiriches on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Nicusor Chiriches after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

Squad

Ianis Tarbă is the weekend's best young player

At 20 he is being measured against the rest of the division's kids and coming out in front. The senior version of this award is where the club would like this to lead.

In brief