Andrei Maxim

Central Defender - Viitorul
20 Sep 2026
Sunday
Process

Marked for Andrei Maxim

6 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Viitorul sink to position 10

3 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Match

7 matches without a win for Viitorul

The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Viitorul are no longer polite ones.

Market

Sergiu 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 Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ovidiu Iancu 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Adrian Nita

Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Player ratings

Florin Ştefan was the difference for Viitorul

Marked 7.18. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Paul Ratiu runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 39. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

The wait goes on for Viitorul

6 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.

Market

George Marin puts it in writing

“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 The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Ovidiu Iancu

“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

Viitorul and Universitatea Craiova take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

Squad

Nicusor Stanciu dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

In brief

2 Edition

The Viitorul Sentinel

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings

Vlad Mitrita runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 35. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market

Viitorul turn down Universitatea Craiova for Andrei Maxim

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Market

Astra join the queue for Cosmin Dragusin

Add another name to the list: Astra have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Cosmin Dragusin. The answer from Viitorul has not changed — yet.

Squad

Ovidiu Iancu signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Ovidiu Iancu and Viitorul agree another 3 years.

Squad

Tempers go at Viitorul

Florin Ştefan 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

Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Cosmin Dragusin 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