From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad13 Dec 2027
The manager makes an example of Dorin Dragusin
“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.
Squad13 Dec 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Ciprian Coman and Pandurii agree another 4 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Loan watch13 Dec 2027
“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 Pandurii, and 0 appearances in 23 say he has earned the hearing.
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Upbeat
Squad11 Oct 2027
There were 9 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.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
Match9 Oct 2027
A 3-2 win over Petrolul, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ciprian Coman commits to Pandurii for another 4 years.
Loan watch11 Oct 2027
“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 Pandurii, and 0 appearances in 14 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
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Steady
Loan watch4 Oct 2027
“I did not go to Polissia to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pandurii and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 7 matches say the rest.
Match2 Oct 2027
1-1, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad4 Oct 2027
The manager makes an example of Marius Tanase
“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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Steady
Squad16 Aug 2027
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 8 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Squad16 Aug 2027
“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.
Squad16 Aug 2027
Mihai Nita 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.
Loan watch16 Aug 2027
“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 Pandurii, and 0 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad16 Aug 2027
At 21 he has made the position his own, and the man he took it from has to find something to say about it. Pandurii have a decision that made itself.
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Uneasy
Market1 Mar 2027
Mihai Puscas 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.
Squad1 Mar 2027
The medical room confirms 67 days on the sidelines for Cosmin Marin, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market1 Mar 2027
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
“I did not go to Viitorul to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pandurii and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 5 matches say the rest.
Squad1 Mar 2027
Pandurii will explain it as a decision about the team, and it may well be one. A dressing room has never once read it that way.
Loan watch1 Mar 2027
22 appearances away from home and 8 goals to show for them. Every one of them makes next summer's conversation a little more expensive.
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Uneasy
Squad18 Jan 2027
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Ciprian Marin 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.
Loan watch18 Jan 2027
“I did not go to Dinamo Bucharest to sit and watch. I want to come back to Pandurii and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 22 matches say the rest.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Matěj Radosta asks for a word with the manager
“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The manager makes an example of Ciprian Coman
“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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Pandurii have made Gabriel Viana available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.