Vlad Maxim

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Marked for Vlad Maxim

5 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad31 Aug 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for George Stanciu

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

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Cristian Dragusin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 31. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market31 Aug 2026

Ciprian Ratiu asks to leave Astra

“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.

Match29 Aug 2026

4 matches without a win for Astra

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Astra are no longer polite ones.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Cristian Dragusin 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joaquín Mattalia 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

Back issues
2 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Market10 Aug 2026

Lucas Peixoto sold, and an era ends

$15.2M from Borussia Mönchengladbach for Lucas Peixoto. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Cristian Dragusin runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 30. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Market10 Aug 2026

Istra 1961 come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Astra did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Astra sell a favourite for $15.2M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Lucas Peixoto was one of the reasons people came, and $15.2M does not replace that by itself.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Vlad Maxim signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Vlad Maxim and Astra agree another 5 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Cristian Dragusin 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Vlad Maxim 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Vlad Maxim

“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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Pandurii expected to open talks for Mariano Baldini

Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. Astra will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.

In brief

1 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match1 Aug 2026

Lucas Peixoto leads the rout of Viitorul

5‑2, and Lucas Peixoto took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Astra tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Lucas Peixoto takes the match ball home

4 goals in one afternoon from one man. The other players were also present, a witness confirmed.

Market3 Aug 2026

Astra turn down Bayern Munich for Lucas Peixoto

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

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Vlad Chiriches yet — 8.11

At 33 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.11 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market3 Aug 2026

Vlad Maxim 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 Astra hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Lucas Peixoto 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 Astra this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

Nobody could stop scoring

7 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about Astra and Viitorul in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Vlad Maxim 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

The manager makes an example of Bogdan Marin

“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.

In brief