Paul Tanase

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18 Sep 2026
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Marked for Paul Tanase

7 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad14 Sep 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Bogdan Vătăjelu

93 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.

Match12 Sep 2026

Pandurii punish Astra for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Paul Tanase will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Astra escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Dorin Stanciu breaks a bone — 82 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 82 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings14 Sep 2026

Both of them Paul Tanase's — 8.78

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 8.78, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Match12 Sep 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Astra

Juraj Badelj 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.

Squad14 Sep 2026

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Razvan Marin 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 ratings14 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Vlad Nita

Successful dribbles: 17. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match12 Sep 2026

Astra and Pandurii take a point apiece

It finished 3‑3, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad17 Aug 2026

Bogdan Vătăjelu damages knee ligaments — 128 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 128 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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Astra win it in stoppage time

The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 95th minute. Petrolul will replay every second of the added time for a week.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A day Claudiu Coman will not forget

3 goals in one game. The first was taken well, the second was taken greedily, and by the third the crowd were simply waiting for him to get the ball.

Market17 Aug 2026

Astra say no — this time

The offer from Zeleznicar Pancevo for Paul Tanase was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Bogdan Cicaldau

Successful dribbles: 23. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Astra

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.

Match15 Aug 2026

Astra find a way past Petrolul

Petrolul made Astra work for it, but the scoreboard read 3‑2 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Claudiu Coman in the eights

A performance of 9.50 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Mihai Moldovan 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.

In brief

2 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market10 Aug 2026

Vlad Mihaila sold, and an era ends

$17.8M from Ajax for Vlad Mihaila. Money is money, but the dressing room has lost the man it looked to.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Bogdan Vătăjelu damages knee ligaments — 136 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 136 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.

Market10 Aug 2026

Astra say no — this time

The offer from Celta for Razvan Marin was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Player ratings10 Aug 2026

Florin Deac, 21, plays like he has been here for years — 8.02

A mark of 8.02 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 21-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Supporters turn on the $17.8M sale of Vlad Mihaila

He is going to Ajax, the club has $17.8M it did not have on Friday, and the phone-ins have already decided how they feel about that. Selling well and selling somebody they loved are not the same skill.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Stefan Bancu signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Stefan Bancu commits to Astra for another 4 years.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Astra

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.

The terraces10 Aug 2026

Astra supporters have found a favourite in Florin Deac

There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 21-year-old it feels ownership of. Florin 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.

Match8 Aug 2026

Stefan Bancu sends Astra past CFR Cluj

It finished 2‑0, and it was Stefan Bancu’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Astra.

In brief

  • Squad Bogdan Cicaldau falls out with a teammate over standards
  • Player ratings Stefan Bancu was on a different afternoon to everybody else
  • Player ratings Both jobs done by Paul Tanase — 6.61