Ionut Iancu

Central Midfielder - Astra
2 Feb 2027
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Marked for Ionut Iancu

27 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

1 Feb 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad1 Feb 2027

A move Tomás Mejía would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Tomás Mejía is living that version at Astra, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Keita Endo wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Astra know it.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Tempers go at Astra

George Puscas 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.

Market1 Feb 2027

Astra sign Eduard Chioveanu for $110.0K

The paperwork is done: Eduard Chioveanu joins from Voluntari in a deal worth $110.0K. Now comes the harder part.

Loan watch1 Feb 2027

Claudiu Deac has seen enough of Pandurii

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Astra, and 0 appearances in 25 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad1 Feb 2027

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ionut Iancu 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.

In brief

Back issues
22 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad28 Dec 2026

Claudiu Stanciu damages knee ligaments — 17 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 17 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad28 Dec 2026

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

Squad28 Dec 2026

George 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market31 Aug 2026

Razvan Puscas 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 Astra can pretend not to have heard.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Astra

George Puscas 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.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Keita Endo 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.

Match29 Aug 2026

A bad afternoon for Astra against Voluntari

0‑2 to Voluntari, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad31 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Ionut Iancu

“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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Claudiu Deac

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief

4 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Nothing got past George Puscas

Headers, blocks, tackles, interceptions — 31 of them, and not one goal behind him. The sort of performance that never makes a highlight reel and wins football matches.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Claudiu Deac, 19, plays like he has been here for years — 7.92

A mark of 7.92 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.

Market24 Aug 2026

Voluntari come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Astra did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Market24 Aug 2026

Alexandru Deac asks to leave Astra

“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.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Ionut Iancu was immovable

25 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

George 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.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Astra

Bogdan Bancu 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 terraces24 Aug 2026

The crowd has taken to Ionut Iancu

At 20 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.

Match22 Aug 2026

Claudiu Deac the difference as Astra beat Universitatea Craiova

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Claudiu Deac. 1‑0 against Universitatea Craiova, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

In brief