Adrian Man

Striker - FCSB
23 Nov 2026
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Marked for Adrian Man

16 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

16 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad16 Nov 2026

Matúš Macík damages knee ligaments — 125 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 125 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.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Ronaldinho runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 38. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Razvan Ratiu 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.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Alexandru Ratiu 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.

Match14 Nov 2026

Astra find a way past Pandurii

Pandurii made Astra work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

A masterclass from Dorin Burca

Marked 8.35 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad16 Nov 2026

Ciprian Tanase 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 Nov 2026

Adrian Man wants to come home

“I did not go to FCSB to sit and watch. I want to come back to Astra and fight for my place.” 0 appearances in 13 matches say the rest.

Player ratings16 Nov 2026

Adrian Coman ran the game

Chances created: 5. Not on the scoresheet and not remotely anonymous — a passing performance that pulled a defence apart without leaving a mark on the column that gets read.

In brief

Back issues
12 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

19 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Player ratings19 Oct 2026

Dorin Burca runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 46. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Razvan Ratiu 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.

Squad19 Oct 2026

Alexandru Ratiu 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.

Match17 Oct 2026

Petrolul take the points off Astra

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Squad19 Oct 2026

A promise honoured for Matúš Macík

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Astra told Matúš Macík something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

Loan watch19 Oct 2026

Adrian Man counts the days

“I watch every Astra game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FCSB runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

In brief

8 Edition

The Astra Chronicle

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Dorin Burca

Successful dribbles: 41. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Match17 Sep 2026

A European night to remember for Astra

1‑0 against Stjarnan, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Player ratings21 Sep 2026

Age has not caught Alexandru Ratiu yet — 8.26

At 34 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.26 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match19 Sep 2026

Still nobody has beaten Astra

The unbeaten run reaches 9. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Razvan Ratiu 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.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Words at Astra training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Rareş Bălan 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.

Loan watch21 Sep 2026

Adrian Man has seen enough of FCSB

“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 Astra, and 0 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Too much change too quickly at Astra

5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.

Squad21 Sep 2026

Rareş Bălan left out for the big one

A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Rareş Bălan will call it something else in private.

In brief

3 Edition

The FCSB Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad17 Aug 2026

Tempers go at FCSB

Juri Cisotti 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.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A move Welinton Júnior would have made for nothing

There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Welinton Júnior is living that version at FCSB, and it tends to show in the first month.

Squad17 Aug 2026

David Miculescu 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.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Juri Cisotti runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 18. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad17 Aug 2026

Welinton Júnior signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Welinton Júnior and FCSB agree another 2 years.

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Florin Tănase takes the honours

Marked 7.12 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, FCSB had the best player on the pitch.

In brief