Ionut Coman

Left Midfielder - Dinamo Bucharest U18
11 May 2029
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117 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

23 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match18 Oct 2028

Antonio Dumitru sends Dinamo Bucharest through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Antonio Dumitru obliged against Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț. 2‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Dinamo Bucharest.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Ionut Coman damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match23 Oct 2028

Dinamo Bucharest are top

25 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.

Player ratings23 Oct 2028

Antonio Dumitru scores twice — 8.54

Two goals and a mark of 8.54 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Match21 Oct 2028

Nobody wants to play Dinamo Bucharest right now

3 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Tempers go at Dinamo Bucharest

Raul Opruţ 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.

Squad23 Oct 2028

Matthias Verreth 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.

The terraces23 Oct 2028

The crowd has taken to Antonio Dumitru

At 23 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

The dugout23 Oct 2028

No hiding place for Andrei Vlad

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Andrei Vlad, and the manager let it.

In brief

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The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

16 Oct 2028
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad16 Oct 2028

A knee injury of the worst kind for Ionut Coman

25 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Dinamo Bucharest lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Market16 Oct 2028

Alexandru Pop is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Dinamo Bucharest is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad16 Oct 2028

A falling-out at Dinamo Bucharest

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

Squad16 Oct 2028

A row about effort at Dinamo Bucharest

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Matthias Verreth was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

The manager makes an example of David Barbu

“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.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Raul Opruţ has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Dinamo Bucharest will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market16 Oct 2028

Talks stall between Dinamo Bucharest and Valentin Ţicu

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad16 Oct 2028

David Barbu has had enough of the bench

“I did not come here to warm up in front of people.” He is out of contract eventually, he is old enough to count the weeks, and Dinamo Bucharest will have to give him a reason to stay or an exit.

The dugout16 Oct 2028

Jordan Ikoko knocks on the manager's door

“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Dinamo Bucharest, and both men came out saying it was fine.

In brief