Adrian Mitrita

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Pandurii
9 Sep 2026
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Adrian Mitrita

6 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A fracture rules Adrian Mitrita out for 136 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.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Pandurii

Position 9 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

Alexandru Chiriches keeps Pandurii in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Universitatea Craiova come back empty-handed

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

The terraces

The boos come down from three sides

“We pay for this every fortnight. The least we want is somebody who looks like he cares.” 5 of the 22 senior players walked off into it; the rest were not playing.

Market

Stefan Bancu puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

Cosmin Mitrita’s goal not enough for Pandurii

Cosmin Mitrita scored, and precious little else went right: 2‑3 to FCSB, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Javier Calle 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Roberto Moretti

“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.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

Adrian Mitrita breaks a bone — 144 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 144 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Adrian Marin 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 Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andrei Man 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.

Match

Pandurii come up short against Dinamo Bucharest

Dinamo Bucharest left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Adrian Marin

“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 ratings

Razvan Tanase in the eights

A performance of 8.21 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Cosmin Marin's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Player ratings

Off the pace: Cosmin Marin

A mark of 4.81 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ciprian Ratiu

Successful dribbles: 12. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

In brief