The Pandurii Chronicle
Market31 Aug 2026
Dragos Cicaldau asks to leave Pandurii
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Vlad Deac 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 Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
One of those days for Claudiu Ratiu
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 9.47, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Match29 Aug 2026
Pandurii see off Dinamo Bucharest
Three points for Pandurii, 2‑1 the final word against Dinamo Bucharest in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Octavian Popescu in the eights
A performance of 8.78 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad31 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Cristian Nita
“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.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Claudiu Ratiu is off the mark for Pandurii
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Octavian Popescu is off the mark for Pandurii
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
Marius Bancu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
In brief
- Player ratings The referee tires of Vlad Burca
- The terraces The press have found their man in Claudiu Ratiu
- The terraces The stand has a song for Octavian Popescu