Sergiu Deac

Central Midfielder - Viitorul
31 Oct 2026
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Marked for Sergiu Deac

8 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match19 Sep 2026

Sergiu Deac lights up a European night for Viitorul

1‑1 against NK Celje, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Sergiu Deac was at the centre of the description.

Squad21 Sep 2026

A day Mihai Nedelcearu will not forget

4 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Match19 Sep 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu leads the rout of Pandurii

4‑1, and Mihai Nedelcearu took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Viitorul tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Ovidiu Burca keeps Viitorul in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Viitorul

Sergiu Hagi 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.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Andrei Hagi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The terraces21 Sep 2026

Viitorul supporters have found a favourite in Nicusor Deac

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Nicusor Deac has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match19 Sep 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu at the heart of a fast Viitorul start

3 goals inside twenty minutes with Mihai Nedelcearu in the middle of it, and Pandurii unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.

In brief

  • Squad Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work
  • Player ratings Sergiu Deac stands above it all
  • Player ratings A costly moment from Paul Burca
Back issues
7 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match12 Sep 2026

Viitorul win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 98th minute. Botosani will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Match14 Sep 2026

Viitorul refuse to drop out of the race

Position 2, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Paul Ratiu breaks a bone — 17 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 17 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market14 Sep 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu wants more than Viitorul are offering

“I have ambitions, and I would like the club to share them.” Nobody has asked to leave and nobody has been shown the door — but a player chooses that sentence carefully, and a boardroom hears it exactly as it was meant.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Cristian Chiriches 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Viitorul find a way past Botosani

Botosani made Viitorul work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Bogdan Nedelcearu 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.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

A masterclass from Sergiu Deac

Marked 8.18 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Ovidiu Burca stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Ovidiu Burca and Viitorul agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

In brief

5 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad31 Aug 2026

Adrian Hagi damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Paul Ratiu out for 32 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viitorul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Andrei Hagi

Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market31 Aug 2026

Daniel Chiriches asks to leave Viitorul

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Market31 Aug 2026

Viitorul sign Cristian Chiriches for $360.0K

The paperwork is done: Cristian Chiriches joins from Petrolul in a deal worth $360.0K. Now comes the harder part.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Viitorul spend $360.0K on the signing the town wanted

It is the rarest sequence in football: supporters ask for something, and the club goes and does it. $360.0K for Cristian Chiriches, and for one week nobody is complaining about anything.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Bogdan Cicaldau 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.

The terraces31 Aug 2026

Viitorul supporters have found a favourite in Florin Tanase

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 19-year-old it feels ownership of. Florin Tanase has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match29 Aug 2026

Viitorul see off Universitatea Craiova

Three points for Viitorul, 2‑0 the final word against Universitatea Craiova in a contest settled by the finer margins.

In brief

4 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Andrei Hagi runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 36. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match19 Aug 2026

Viitorul march on in the cup

Botosani are out and Viitorul go through, 1‑0 the final word. The bracket opens up a little, and everyone allows themselves a look at it.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Adrian Hagi damages knee ligaments — 24 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.

Match19 Aug 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu settles it late for Viitorul

The 89th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Mihai Nedelcearu decided nobody was going anywhere. Botosani had no time left to answer.

Squad24 Aug 2026

A fracture rules Paul Ratiu out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Viitorul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Bogdan Moldovan, 20, plays like he has been here for years — 8.68

A mark of 8.68 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 20-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market24 Aug 2026

Claudiu Balasa puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Ovidiu Burca keeps Viitorul in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market24 Aug 2026

Eyes on Sergiu Hagi again

The phone has started ringing about Sergiu Hagi again, and this time the name on the line is Universitatea Craiova. Viitorul are listening politely and promising nothing.

In brief

1 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market3 Aug 2026

Viitorul say no — this time

The offer from Lech for Stefan Ratiu 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Anderlecht watching Dragos Maxim

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Viitorul have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Sergiu Deac

Successful dribbles: 24. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market3 Aug 2026

Mihai Nedelcearu raises the bar for Viitorul

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Viitorul heard it as anything else.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Paul Burca 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.

The terraces3 Aug 2026

Viitorul supporters have found a favourite in Stefan Ratiu

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 23-year-old it feels ownership of. Stefan Ratiu has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.

Match1 Aug 2026

Stefan Ratiu the difference as Viitorul beat Astra

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Stefan Ratiu. 2‑0 against Astra, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

One of those days for Stefan Ratiu

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.12, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A masterclass from Mihai Nedelcearu

Marked 8.02 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief