The Viitorul Sentinel
Match19 Aug 2026
Ionut Iancu sends Viitorul through
Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Ionut Iancu obliged against Botosani. 1‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Viitorul.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Ovidiu Chiriches damages knee ligaments — 24 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 24 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
No sign of nerves from Ionut Iancu at 17 — 7.98
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Ionut Iancu did not need any: 7.98, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Market24 Aug 2026
Claudiu Deac 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 Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Florin Ştefan 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 Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Bogdan Ratiu 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 terraces24 Aug 2026
The crowd has taken to Cosmin Man
At 22 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.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Paul Puscas in the eights
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Match22 Aug 2026
Paul Puscas rescues a point for Viitorul
It needed Paul Puscas to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Petrolul, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
In brief
- Squad 6 new faces, and Viitorul are still learning each other
- Player ratings Ciprian Puscas runs at them all day
- Market Vlad Moldovan linked with a move away