Razvan Coman

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Viitorul
10 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

Marked for Razvan Coman

18 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Viitorul may not be able to give Eduardo Fonseca what he wants

It is the most legitimate ambition in the sport and the hardest for most clubs to satisfy. Eduardo Fonseca wants continental football; whether Viitorul can provide it is a question about the next two seasons, not about him.

Squad

Florin Ştefan 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.

Squad

Viitorul count the cost of losing Razvan Ratiu

21 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief

Back issues
17 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

The cup run ends for Viitorul

0‑2 against CFR Cluj, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.

Squad

Dorin Marin breaks a bone — 19 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 19 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Eduardo Fonseca runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

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.

Squad

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.

Squad

No hiding place for Marius Ratiu

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

In brief

14 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dorin Marin breaks a bone — 44 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 44 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad

Marius Ratiu 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.

Market

Eduardo Fonseca wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Viitorul hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Match

Nobody wants to play Viitorul 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.

Squad

Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ovidiu Mitrita 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.

Match

Marius Marin sends Viitorul past Universitatea Craiova

It finished 2‑1, and it was Marius Marin’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Viitorul.

Squad

Dorin Marin 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.

Market

Talks stall between Viitorul and Aly Abeid

“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.

Player ratings

Marius Marin stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.72 on the card, and the Viitorul support went home talking about one name.

In brief

13 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

A fracture rules Dorin Marin out for 52 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.

Match

Claudiu Man breaks Petrolul hearts

Some goals win a match and some take one off somebody else. Claudiu Man scored in the 88th minute, Petrolul had already begun thinking about the journey home, and Viitorul took the lot.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Aly Abeid 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.

Match

Viitorul see off Petrolul

Three points for Viitorul, 2‑1 the final word against Petrolul in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

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.

Player ratings

One of those days for Claudiu Man

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.26, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad

A promise honoured for Aly Abeid

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Viitorul told Aly Abeid something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Eduardo Fonseca

Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Razvan Coman changes it off the bench

He was not in the side at half past three and he had settled it before five. Half an hour, and Viitorul had a different afternoon.

In brief

8 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Dorin Marin breaks a bone — 92 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 92 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings

Marius Marin, 33, rolls back the years — 8.20

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.20 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Eduardo Fonseca

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Eduardo Fonseca 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.

Market

Chornomorets are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. Viitorul will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Match

Eduardo Fonseca the difference as Viitorul beat Pandurii

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Eduardo Fonseca. 2‑1 against Pandurii, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief

4 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Cup progress for Viitorul

A 2‑1 win over Botosani, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

Both of them Ovidiu Mitrita's — 8.13

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.13, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

A debut Razvan Balasa will not forget — 7.38

There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 0 on the scoresheet, 7.38 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.

Player ratings

A brace, and Razvan Coman takes the afternoon — 7.87

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Razvan Coman provided it, and the 7.87 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Market

Ianis Stanciu 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.

Market

Viitorul say no — this time

The offer from Astra for Vlad Mitrita 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Claudiu Man 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.

Market

MFK Skalica watching Razvan Cicaldau

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

Match

Viitorul get the job done against Petrolul

A 2‑1 win over Petrolul, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

In brief