Marked for Razvan Mitrita
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Squad12 Oct 2026
Claudiu Mihaila damages knee ligaments — 98 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 98 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 9 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
No sign of nerves from Razvan Mitrita at 17 — 8.04
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Razvan Mitrita did not need any: 8.04, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings12 Oct 2026
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.15 at 34, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Match10 Oct 2026
The wait goes on for Viitorul
5 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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
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.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Marius Nedelcearu 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.
The terraces12 Oct 2026
At 17 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.
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Steady
Match19 Sep 2026
4‑7 to Pandurii, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Match17 Sep 2026
A European night to remember for Viitorul
5‑4 against FK Senica, 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.
Match17 Sep 2026
Viitorul win it in stoppage time
The board had gone up, the arguing had started, and then the ball was in the net in the 96th minute. FK Senica will replay every second of the added time for a week.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.07, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
No sign of nerves from Razvan Mitrita at 17 — 8.67
The hardest thing about being 17 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Razvan Mitrita did not need any: 8.67, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Two goals and a mark of 7.63 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A goal and an assist for Mihai Puscas — 7.94
Involvement in 2 goals, from a player who spent the ninety minutes doing the thing a manager actually wants: being where the ball was going to end up. 7.94 beside his name.
Squad21 Sep 2026
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.
Match19 Sep 2026
Defending was optional and nobody took up the option. 11 goals between Viitorul and Pandurii, and not one of the people who paid to be there will ask for the money back.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match7 Sep 2026
Viitorul refuse to drop out of the race
Position 2, 13 points, and the result everyone checks first is now theirs. The word is still not being said around the ground, which is how you know everyone is thinking it.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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.
Market7 Sep 2026
The chase for Daniel Nita ended with $160.0K changing hands and Pandurii out of reasons to say no. The supporters will judge the fee the only way that matters: on Saturdays.
Squad7 Sep 2026
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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Adrian Burca 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.
The terraces7 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 17-year-old it feels ownership of. Razvan Mitrita 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
Three points for Viitorul, 1‑0 the final word against Voluntari in a contest settled by the finer margins.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.02, and no argument anywhere in the ground.