Marked for Carlos Queiroz
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Uneasy
Match30 Nov 2026
Pandurii sink to position 10
10 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Bogdan Mihaila 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.
Squad30 Nov 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Adrian Nita commits to Pandurii for another 4 years.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Squad16 Nov 2026
A fracture rules Ovidiu Maxim out for 24 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pandurii will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Ianis Nedelcearu, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.73
A mark of 7.73 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 19-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bogdan Mihaila 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 terraces16 Nov 2026
At 19 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
Match14 Nov 2026
A 1‑0 win over Astra, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Uneasy
Squad14 Sep 2026
Jo Coppens 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
9 new faces, and Pandurii are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dinamo Bucharest runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
The afternoon belonged to Stefan Iancu
7.67, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Pandurii had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“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.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
13 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Astra will be the happier side with the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Alexander Rosso trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
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Crisis
Market17 Aug 2026
Pandurii say no — this time
The offer from Astra for Adrian Coman 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
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 ratings17 Aug 2026
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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: NK Zavrc have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Ovidiu Burca. The answer from Pandurii has not changed — yet.
Match15 Aug 2026
0‑1 to Voluntari, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad17 Aug 2026
23 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.