Marked for Daniel Nita
From our football correspondent
Crisis
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 40. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market7 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market7 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Pandurii, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Match5 Sep 2026
4 matches without a win for Pandurii
The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Pandurii are no longer polite ones.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Guido Nogar 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cosmin Balasa 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Daniel Nita has left for Viitorul in a $160.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.
Match5 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Pandurii against FCSB
1‑2 to FCSB, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Sep 2026
Viitorul refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market7 Sep 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 The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.
Market7 Sep 2026
The chase for Daniel Nita ended with $160.0K changing hands and Pandurii out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad7 Sep 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 Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adrian Burca 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Razvan Mitrita has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Viitorul, 1‑0 the final word against Voluntari in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
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Uneasy
Match19 Aug 2026
Pandurii bow out of the cup
Voluntari go through and Pandurii go home, 0‑1 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.
Match22 Aug 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Cosmin Balasa will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Pandurii escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.47, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Market24 Aug 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Guido Nogar 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cosmin Balasa 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.
Match22 Aug 2026
It needed Cosmin Balasa to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Botosani, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad24 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Nicusor Deac
“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.
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Uneasy
Match1 Aug 2026
Pandurii throw away a 3-goal lead
3 in front and in complete control, and it finished with Petrolul the happier side. There is no version of this afternoon that Pandurii will enjoy reviewing.
Market3 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.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
A chastening introduction for Marius Ratiu — 5.79
It is a hard way to meet a crowd. Marked 5.79 on the day he was handed the shirt, and the important thing now is what the next one looks like.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Words at Pandurii training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cosmin Balasa 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ianis Marin and Pandurii agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Ionut Mitrita 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Marius Ratiu
“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 ratings3 Aug 2026
A performance of 8.38 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Dragos Deac was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.38. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.