The Astra Chronicle
Squad21 Dec 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dragos Cicaldau
17 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Astra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Santiago Hezze 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Ciprian Moldovan 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch21 Dec 2026
Florin Ratiu has seen enough of IA
“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 6 appearances in 18 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout21 Dec 2026
The manager makes an example of Daniel Nita
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Daniel Nita wants out of the dugout
“I did not sign to watch. Nobody does.” The oldest complaint in the game, and Astra will have to answer it with minutes or with a move.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes Matei Goga a promise
- Market The Andrei Deac talk will not go away
- The dugout Stefan Deac keeps his manager's vote