The Pandurii Chronicle
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marius Bancu runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 56. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pandurii sell Adrian Moldovan for $9.9M
Adrian Moldovan has left for West Ham United in a $9.9M deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Market17 Aug 2026
Dinamo Bucharest 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.
Market17 Aug 2026
Pandurii sell George Mihaila for $450.0K
George Mihaila has left for Astra in a $450.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Marius Bancu 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
George Moldovan 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 Bogdan Cicaldau
“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 ratings17 Aug 2026
Mihai Stanciu was the difference for Pandurii
Marked 7.47. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.
Squad17 Aug 2026
George Deac signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” George Deac commits to Pandurii for another 3 years.