Andrei Hagi

Attacking Midfielder (C) - Petrolul
5 Sep 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andrei Hagi

4 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Claudiu Mihaila sold, and an era ends

$12.0M from Lokomotiv Moscow for Claudiu Mihaila. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Market

Petrolul say no — this time

The offer from CFR Cluj for Vlad Tanase 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.

Market

Mihai Coman 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 Petrolul can pretend not to have heard.

The terraces

Petrolul sell a favourite for $12.0M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Claudiu Mihaila was one of the reasons people came, and $12.0M does not replace that by itself.

Match

Petrolul cannot stop winning

4 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Andrei 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Andrei Hagi

Successful dribbles: 21. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match

Petrolul find a way past Viitorul

Viitorul made Petrolul work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Daniel Burca at his very best

Marked 8.21. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Petrolul.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Market

Petrolul turn down CFR Cluj for Cosmin Moldovan

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Vlad Tanase attracts admirers

The name of Vlad Tanase has come up in conversations Petrolul were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.

Match

Petrolul cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Cosmin 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.

Market

The Claudiu Mihaila conversation is coming

Everyone has stopped pretending: Lokomotiv Moscow will make the call about Claudiu Mihaila this week. Petrolul have a number in mind, and the number is not shy.

Match

Andrei Hagi the difference as Petrolul beat Astra

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Andrei Hagi. 2‑0 against Astra, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Andrei Hagi in the eights

A performance of 8.00 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Vlad 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.

Player ratings

Lyes Houri runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

2 Edition

The Petrolul Courier

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Claudiu Mihaila settles it late for Petrolul

The 88th minute, half the ground already edging towards the exits, and Claudiu Mihaila decided nobody was going anywhere. FCSB had no time left to answer.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Betão

Successful dribbles: 26. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Market

Claudiu Mihaila 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 Petrolul hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Daniel Nedelcearu stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Nedelcearu and Petrolul agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad

Tempers go at Petrolul

Cosmin 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.

Squad

Petrolul count the cost of losing Javi Zarzo

50 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

Squad

Andrei Hagi 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.

Match

Petrolul see off FCSB

Three points for Petrolul, 1‑0 the final word against FCSB in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Player ratings

The afternoon belonged to Claudiu Mihaila

A mark of 7.44, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.

In brief