Marked for Sergiu Mitrita
From our football correspondent
Crisis
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 Cracovia this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Lech left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad17 Aug 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.17 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dominik Baumgartner'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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Pau Sans
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Back issues
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
The name of Andrei Deac has come up in conversations Pandurii were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Cosmin Marin 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Razvan Tanase
“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.
Match15 Aug 2026
Three points for Pandurii, 1‑0 the final word against Voluntari in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Stefan Nedelcearu 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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.63 on the card, and the Pandurii support went home talking about one name.
Market17 Aug 2026
Omonoia 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.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 11. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The first one is the one every signing is asked about until it arrives. It has arrived, and he can stop being asked.
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Market3 Aug 2026
Pandurii say no — this time
The offer from MTK Budapest for Sergiu Mitrita 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Cosmin Marin 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
Adrian Marin 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
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.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Nicusor Puscas has come up in conversations Pandurii were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Cosmin Marin knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Cosmin Marin trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market3 Aug 2026
Ciprian Coman is free to find somewhere else
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at Pandurii has been clear about where Ciprian Coman stands, which is more than many ever get.