Marked for Dragos Mitrita
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad14 Dec 2026
Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Sergiu Ratiu is 19, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Marius Bancu 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Gastón Rossi 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.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Daniel Bancu 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Marius Bancu 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Ianis Man
Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergiu Ratiu and Pandurii agree another 3 years.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Pandurii
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Pandurii are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gastón Rossi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dorin Burca 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Karpaty are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Pandurii will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dragos Mitrita
“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.
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
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pandurii would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Uneasy
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match19 Aug 2026
The cup run ends for Pandurii
0‑2 against Voluntari, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Ianis Man, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 7.65
A mark of 7.65 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Market24 Aug 2026
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.
Match22 Aug 2026
No end in sight to Pandurii's wait for a win
5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pandurii has to find a result from somewhere.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Daniel 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Gastón Rossi 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Razvan Coman, and the manager let it.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ciprian Man commits to Pandurii for another 3 years.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
There were 9 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
A day Ianis Man will not forget
3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ianis Man at 21 — 8.05
The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ianis Man did not need any: 8.05, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Match1 Aug 2026
Petrolul left with the points after a 4‑6 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
One scored and one made, which is a different afternoon from scoring twice and an easier one to overlook. Marked 7.90, and involved in 2 of his side's goals.
Match1 Aug 2026
10 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Pandurii and Petrolul in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.
Squad3 Aug 2026
George Moldovan 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Bogdan Cicaldau 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.
The terraces3 Aug 2026
Pandurii supporters have found a favourite in Ianis Man
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Ianis Man has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.