4 goals in 18 games at Gornik Zabrze — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at Petrolul updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Ianis Tanase 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Petrolul training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Marin 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.
Ianis Tanase 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.
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.