Bogdan Man

Striker - Ufa
14 Nov 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Bogdan Man

10 Edition

The Ufa Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

The small margins put Ufa out

Out, 1‑2 to Volgar, and the long argument about which of the small moments decided it. The league is all there is now, and everybody knows it.

Match

The wait goes on for Ufa

4 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Squad

Tempers go at Ufa

Ivan Lomaev 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.

Boardroom

201% of the income goes out in wages at Ufa

Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.

Loan watch

Alexey Chernov has seen enough of Chaika

“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Ufa, and 2 appearances in 6 say he has earned the hearing.

Player ratings

Adriano Jagušić runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 19. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Boardroom

Nobody left the Ufa dressing room in a hurry

The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at Ufa

9 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad

Bogdan Man named in the team of the month

A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Bogdan Man is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.

In brief

Back issues
7 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

A brace, and Cosmin Ratiu takes the afternoon — 8.42

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Cosmin Ratiu provided it, and the 8.42 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cosmin Ratiu is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ionut Man

“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.

Match

Cosmin Ratiu rescues a point for Pandurii

It needed Cosmin Ratiu to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Astra, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.

Squad

The division's best last weekend was a Pandurii man

It is a small honour and it is not nothing: somebody watched every match in the division and decided that Cosmin Ratiu was the best thing in any of them.

Player ratings

Dragos Man runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 12. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

When it matters, Ianis Deac plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Player ratings

Off the bench and decisive: Paul Maxim

The substitution nobody applauded turned out to be the whole story. Pandurii were going nowhere until he came on.

Market

The window shut and Ionut Tanase is still in the building

Pandurii spent a month trying to move him and nobody rang back. He trains with a squad that has told him where he stands, and both sides start counting down to the next one.

In brief

7 Edition

The Ufa Sentinel

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Danil Lipovoy runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

Tempers go at Ufa

Ilja Agapov 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.

Match

Dilan Ortíz the difference as Ufa beat Torpedo Moscow

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Dilan Ortíz. 1‑0 against Torpedo Moscow, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Player ratings

Dilan Ortíz stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.82 on the card, and the Ufa support went home talking about one name.

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Vladislav Kamilov's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market

Ufa sign Yuri Afanasyev, one for the future

Yuri Afanasyev is 14, and Ufa have signed him for the player he will be rather than the one he is. The first team can wait; the point of a deal like this is the years it buys.

Market

Ufa buy the years ahead of Boris Nikolayev

He is 16, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad

Evgeny Shlyakov gets it from the manager

“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 ratings

Off the pace: Vladislav Kamilov

A mark of 4.78 tells the story without any need for embellishment. He will want the tape of this one quietly lost.

In brief

6 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

Vlad Moldovan 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 Pandurii can pretend not to have heard.

Match

Every point is an argument now for Pandurii

Position 9 and 4 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Squad

A one-man rearguard from Ionut Man

There were 8 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Squad

Cosmin Ratiu 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.

Market

Ufa join the queue for Bogdan Man

Add another name to the list: Ufa have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Bogdan Man. The answer from Pandurii has not changed — yet.

Player ratings

Cosmin Ratiu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 17. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A place in the month's best eleven for Vlad Moldovan

Four or five weekends of consistency, judged against everybody in the division doing his job. Vlad Moldovan has come out of that comparison in the side, and Pandurii have had the benefit of every one of those afternoons.

Squad

Cristian Coman 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

Pandurii draw a blank against FCSB

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. FCSB defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

In brief