Andrei Deac

Striker - Nyva
8 Jan 2028
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andrei Deac

71 Edition

The Nyva Post

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Paulo Miranda out for 114 days

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

Match

Nyva win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 91th minute. Chernihiv will replay every second of the added time for a week.

The dugout

Yurii Mykhayliv keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Nyva may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Words exchanged at Nyva

Shota Nonikashvili and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad

A row about effort at Nyva

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Marian Mysyk was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Match

Shota Nonikashvili sends Nyva past Chernihiv

It finished 1‑0, and it was Shota Nonikashvili’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Nyva.

Player ratings

Shota Nonikashvili was on a different afternoon to everybody else

8.18. 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.

Squad

Andrei Deac signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Andrei Deac and Nyva agree another 1 years.

Boardroom

Wages swallow 85% of the Nyva income

Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.

In brief

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44 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Daniel Nedelcearu breaks a bone — 50 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 50 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Boardroom

Continental nights are coming to Astra

Qualification is secured, and next season the big floodlit nights are continental ones. For the players it is a stage; for the accounts it is a lifeline; for the supporters it is passports.

Squad

Cristian Puscas honoured for the season

The kind of year that ends with a name being read out in a hall. Astra had the benefit of it every week and now have the problem of everybody else knowing.

Squad

Nicusor Dragusin 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

A muscle injury and 16 days out for Vlad Chiriches

The most common injury in the game and the most rushed back from. Astra will quote 16 days and will be careful with it, because the second one is always worse than the first.

Market

Vlad Mitrita comes back from a loan that worked

24 appearances and 3 goals away from here, and a player the manager did not have in August. Loans are sent out hoping for exactly this and most of them do not deliver it.

The dugout

Roan Wilson is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

The dugout

Vlad Mitrita knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vlad Mitrita trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

The dugout

Cristian Moldovan has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Astra will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

In brief

37 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

12 Apr 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Abdelrafik Gérard

35 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Astra lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

Astra up to position 2

29 points on the board and a place in the leading group. Nobody at the ground is saying the word out loud yet.

Squad

16 days out for Paul Nita after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Astra will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Squad

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cristian Puscas 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Astra

Nicusor Ratiu 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.

The dugout

Riad Šuta gets it from the manager

“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.

The dugout

Nicusor Ratiu has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Astra will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market

Astra and Lucas Lima are talking past each other

“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.

Market

The Claudiu Hagi question follows Astra around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Claudiu Hagi’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

In brief

30 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

22 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Cristian Puscas 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

Nicusor Ratiu 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ionut Balasa

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

Squad

Andrej Lukić is a square peg at Astra

The system has changed and his position has not. A footballer can improve his form; he cannot improve the manager’s formation, and that is the whole of the problem.

Market

The Cristian Moldovan story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Cristian Moldovan signs something — a contract at Astra or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

Squad

Moussa Grange still has not settled

A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Astra would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.

The dugout

A door opens for Riad Šuta

He asked about his future and was given an answer with minutes in it. The manager has now made a promise in a building where promises are remembered, and the clock on it has started.

Loan watch

3 goals on loan for Vlad Mitrita

21 appearances at Metalist and the goals keep coming. Astra are watching this more closely than the borrowing club would like.

Market

Andrej Lukić joins Astra on a free

No fee and no drama: Andrej Lukić has signed at Astra, and the wage bill is the only line that moved.

In brief