Marked for Andrei Deac
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad10 May 2027
Andrei Mărginean 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Denis Bouanga has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Dinamo Bucharest will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Back issues
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Steady
Squad10 May 2027
Andrei Cicaldau 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.
Squad10 May 2027
Razvan Hagi 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.
Squad10 May 2027
The medical room confirms 23 days on the sidelines for Dorin Mitrita, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
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Steady
Squad12 Apr 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Cicaldau
47 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad12 Apr 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Dragos Stanciu commits to Pandurii for another 3 years.
Squad12 Apr 2027
Razvan Hagi 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.
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Steady
Squad15 Mar 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Cicaldau
77 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market15 Mar 2027
“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.
Squad15 Mar 2027
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.
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Steady
Market15 Feb 2027
“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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Razvan Hagi 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.
Squad15 Feb 2027
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Pandurii are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Bogdan Stanciu 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.
Loan watch15 Feb 2027
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Dinamo Bucharest runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Squad18 Jan 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dragos Balasa
14 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad18 Jan 2027
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Pandurii may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Razvan Hagi 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.
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Steady
Squad21 Dec 2026
Dragos Balasa damages knee ligaments — 45 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 45 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.
Squad21 Dec 2026
Andrei Puscas: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pandurii have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Market21 Dec 2026
Razvan Hagi wants to know where this is going
“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Pandurii hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.
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Crisis
Match18 Nov 2026
Pandurii bow out of the cup
FCSB go through and Pandurii go home, 0‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Daniel Burca: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Pandurii have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Razvan Hagi 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.
Squad23 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Bogdan Cicaldau, and the manager let it.
Squad23 Nov 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Razvan Hagi'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.
Loan watch23 Nov 2026
“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 Pandurii, and 0 appearances in 13 say he has earned the hearing.
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Crisis
Match24 Oct 2026
No end in sight to Pandurii's wait for a win
14 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Pandurii has to find a result from somewhere.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Razvan Hagi 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted Pandurii
4 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at Pandurii can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Cornel Râpă gets it from the manager
“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.
Match24 Oct 2026
0‑1 to Botosani, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Ciprian Chiriches 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.
Loan watch26 Oct 2026
“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 Pandurii, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad26 Oct 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Many Le Toux and Pandurii agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
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Uneasy
Match26 Sep 2026
The wait goes on for Pandurii
10 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.
Market28 Sep 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
A move Nico Valentine 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. Nico Valentine is living that version at Pandurii, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Razvan Hagi 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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Ciprian Chiriches at his very best
Marked 9.04. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Pandurii.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Cornel Râpă gets it from the manager
“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.
Loan watch28 Sep 2026
“I did not go to Dinamo Bucharest to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pandurii and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Match26 Sep 2026
1‑1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
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Crisis
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 Dinamo Bucharest, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad24 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 Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match22 Aug 2026
Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrei Mărginean 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad24 Aug 2026
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Vladimir Screciu trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Marcus Olsson dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Shots: 9, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
Market24 Aug 2026
The list is a quiet document with a loud meaning. Valentin Ţicu may talk to anybody who asks, and everybody at the club understands what that means.