The Pandurii Chronicle
The dugout18 Oct 2027
Nikolay Sysuev says Pandurii went back on their word
“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.
Player ratings18 Oct 2027
Nobody could get near Florin Iancu
Successful dribbles: 30. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad18 Oct 2027
A falling-out at Pandurii
Adrian Mitrita and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces18 Oct 2027
Pandurii supporters have found a favourite in Louka Gautier
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Louka Gautier 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.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Adrian Marin 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.
Looking ahead18 Oct 2027
Everything rides on Petrolul
Both clubs in the mire, one fixture between them, and a ground that will be louder and more frightened than at any point in the season. Pandurii know what is at stake and so does everybody in the away end.
The dugout18 Oct 2027
No hiding place for Leverton Pierre
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Leverton Pierre, and the manager let it.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Pandurii count the cost of losing Daniel Maxim
31 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad18 Oct 2027
Too much change too quickly at Pandurii
7 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
In brief
- Loan watch Daniel Cicaldau wants to come home
- Player ratings The afternoon belonged to Louka Gautier
- The dugout The manager’s verdict