The Viitorul Sentinel
Squad24 Aug 2026
Octavian Vâlceanu is the hero from the spot
A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Octavian Vâlceanu: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Viitorul
0‑0 against Botosani, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Market24 Aug 2026
Mihai Stanciu asks to leave Viitorul
“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.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Viitorul's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Viitorul has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ionut Puscas 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Business is business: Bogdan Moldovan goes
Astra paid $87.0K and Viitorul took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Ionut Puscas
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dorin Mihaila 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
One of those days for Ciprian Marin
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.85, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
In brief
- Market Kawasaki Frontale expected to open talks for Daniel Burca
- Player ratings Daniel Mitrita was immovable
- Squad The manager makes an example of Daniel Burca