Marked for Dragos Deac
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad7 Dec 2026
Daniel Bancu 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.
Loan watch7 Dec 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Gastón Rossi 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.
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Steady
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 51. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad9 Nov 2026
Daniel Bancu 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.
Squad9 Nov 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.
Player ratings9 Nov 2026
A masterclass from Ianis Man
Marked 8.09 — 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.
Squad9 Nov 2026
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Sergiu Ratiu and Pandurii agree another 3 years.
Loan watch9 Nov 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
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Uneasy
Match10 Oct 2026
Still nobody has beaten FCSB
The unbeaten run reaches 13. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 29. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FCSB may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Tempers go at FCSB
Juri Cisotti 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.
Match10 Oct 2026
The goals have deserted FCSB
3 matches, no goals, and a training ground that has tried everything. It will end — droughts always do — but nobody at FCSB can tell you which week it ends in.
Squad12 Oct 2026
David Miculescu 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.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Match10 Oct 2026
Beaten 0‑4 by Universitatea Craiova, and beaten everywhere it matters. The inquest starts on the training pitch on Monday morning.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Daniel Bancu 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.
Squad12 Oct 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.
Loan watch12 Oct 2026
“I did not go to FCSB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pandurii and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 9 matches say the rest.
Boardroom12 Oct 2026
The music was off and the showers ran late. What was said in that dressing room stays there, but Saturday will publish the minutes.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Dorin Burca, and the manager let it.
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Uneasy
Match12 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Pandurii
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Pandurii are no longer polite ones.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Gastón Rossi 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.
Squad14 Sep 2026
Dorin Burca 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.
Market14 Sep 2026
Karpaty are about to pick up the phone
A conversation is coming this week. Pandurii will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.
Loan watch14 Sep 2026
“I watch every Pandurii game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Squad14 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Dragos Mitrita
“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.
Match12 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. Astra will be the happier side with the point.
Squad14 Sep 2026
A year in and the language has not come, the city has not opened up, and he eats alone more often than anybody at Pandurii would like to admit. It is showing on Saturdays.
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Crisis
Player ratings10 Aug 2026
Ianis Man runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 37. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Market10 Aug 2026
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.
Squad10 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ianis Man and Pandurii agree another 5 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market10 Aug 2026
Add another name to the list: Astra have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about George Mihaila. The answer from Pandurii has not changed — yet.
Squad10 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.
Squad10 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 Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.