The Viitorul Sentinel
Match5 Oct 2026
Every point is an argument now for Viitorul
Position 10 and 7 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.
Match3 Oct 2026
Stefan Tanase leads the rout of Astra
3‑0, and Stefan Tanase took the headlines on an afternoon when everything Viitorul tried came off. Days like this are retold all winter.
Market5 Oct 2026
Stefan Tanase 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 The request is on a desk at Viitorul, and it is not being withdrawn.
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Stefan Tanase scores twice — 8.86
Two goals and a mark of 8.86 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Stefan Tanase is the real thing at 21
A season average of 7.02 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. Viitorul know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Viitorul training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ovidiu Perianu 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.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Martín Pucheta 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 Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
Claudiu Bancu counts the days
“I watch every Viitorul game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Kryvbas runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
The terraces5 Oct 2026
The crowd has taken to Alexandru Balasa
At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.
In brief
- Match Stefan Tanase at the heart of a fast Viitorul start
- Squad Viitorul count the cost of losing Adrian Moldovan
- Player ratings Nobody could get near Stefan Balasa