Andrei Man

Central Midfielder - Free Agent
9 Oct 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andrei Man

16 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Man

18 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

Both of them Mihai Iancu's — 8.52

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.52, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Player ratings

Vlad Hagi runs at them all day

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.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Vlad 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.

Squad

Matvey Lukin 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 see off Astra

Three points for Pandurii, 2‑1 the final word against Astra in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Pandurii pick somebody else ahead of Ovidiu Keseru

There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.

Player ratings

The pass was always on for Ovidiu Moldovan

Chances created: 5. Somebody has to open a door before anybody can walk through it, and he spent the afternoon opening doors.

Player ratings

Bogdan Vătăjelu spends the afternoon fouling

Fouls conceded: 6. He was booked, he was fortunate not to be booked twice, and the referee had run out of patience long before the end.

In brief

Back issues
15 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vlad Hagi

Successful dribbles: 38. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Andrei Man damages knee ligaments — 26 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 26 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Match

Pandurii are in real trouble now

Position 8, 16 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

In brief

14 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

2 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Andrei Man damages knee ligaments — 35 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 35 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad

Nicusor Iancu says Pandurii went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Market

Claudiu Keseru 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 Pandurii hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cornel Râpă 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.

Match

Claudiu Keseru’s goal not enough for Pandurii

Claudiu Keseru scored, and precious little else went right: 1‑2 to Dinamo Bucharest, and a quiet walk to the dressing room.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Brian Garino 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.

In brief

13 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Andrei Man

43 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Player ratings

A hand in 2 of them from Claudiu Keseru — 7.96

Marked 7.96. There is a kind of forward whose value only shows up when you count what he was involved in rather than what he finished, and this is the day that argument makes itself.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Vlad Hagi

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Vlad Hagi 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.

Match

Botosani take the points off Pandurii

Beaten 2‑3, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad

Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Matvey Lukin 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.

In brief