The Pandurii Chronicle
Squad24 Aug 2026
Andrei Burca damages knee ligaments — 22 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 22 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.
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Universitatea Craiova come back empty-handed
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.
Market24 Aug 2026
Sergiu Balasa asks to leave Pandurii
“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
Paul Nita 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Tempers go at Pandurii
Renan Oliveira 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.
The terraces24 Aug 2026
Pandurii supporters have found a favourite in Ciprian Deac
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Ciprian Deac 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.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Eduardo Andrade 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 ratings24 Aug 2026
Ciprian Deac in the eights
A performance of 8.58 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
In brief
- Match Ciprian Deac sends Pandurii past Botosani
- Player ratings Marius Man runs at them all day
- Player ratings Off the pace: Ovidiu Balasa