The Viitorul Sentinel
Squad4 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javier Calle
113 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Viitorul lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad4 Jan 2027
The season belongs to Eduardo Fonseca
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Viitorul have had the benefit of it.
Market4 Jan 2027
Mihai Coman 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 Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tempers go at Viitorul
Florin Ştefan 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.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Ovidiu Mitrita 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.
Market4 Jan 2027
Botosani join the queue for Ianis Stanciu
Add another name to the list: Botosani have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ianis Stanciu. The answer from Viitorul has not changed — yet.
In brief
- Market Talks stall between Viitorul and Aly Abeid
- Loan watch Andrei Hagi wants to come home
- Market Andrei Coman is free to find somewhere else