Marked for Dragos Mitrita
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market15 Mar 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Astra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad15 Mar 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stefan Tanase commits to Astra for another 4 years.
Squad15 Mar 2027
41 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Back issues
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Uneasy
Market15 Feb 2027
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Squad15 Feb 2027
74 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Tempers go at Astra
Bogdan Balasa 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.
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Uneasy
Market18 Jan 2027
“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 The request is on a desk at Astra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad18 Jan 2027
109 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Market18 Jan 2027
The fee is $140.0K, the contract is signed, and the argument about whether he is worth it can begin. Dinamo Bucharest drove a hard bargain; time will say who won it.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Stefan Coman 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad18 Jan 2027
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad18 Jan 2027
102 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market11 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market11 Jan 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 Astra can pretend not to have heard.
Squad11 Jan 2027
Dragos Mitrita: 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.” Astra have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market7 Dec 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 Astra, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Dec 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Astra have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Stefan Coman 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Dec 2026
150 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad7 Dec 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Dragos Mitrita and Astra agree another 2 years.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I did not go to FCSB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Astra and fight for my place.” 2 appearances in 17 matches say the rest.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market16 Nov 2026
“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Tempers go at Astra
Razvan Stanciu 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 ratings16 Nov 2026
Defensive actions: 18. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.68 on the card, and the Astra support went home talking about one name.
Squad16 Nov 2026
Bogdan Tanase 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 Bogdan Tanase trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Squad16 Nov 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Rodrigo Cunha, and the manager let it.
Match14 Nov 2026
Point won or two lost for Astra?
Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Pandurii? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.
Player ratings16 Nov 2026
Shots: 7, not one of them in. A centre forward is paid for one thing, and on this evidence he has forgotten which thing it is.
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Steady
Market17 Aug 2026
Viitorul come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Astra did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Match15 Aug 2026
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Alexandru Tanase. 3‑2 against Petrolul, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.97 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Marked 8.61 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.27, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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
Successful dribbles: 13. 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.