The Concordia Chiajna Courier
Squad19 Jul 2027
137 days out for Ionuţ Voicu after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Concordia Chiajna will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market19 Jul 2027
Claudiu Bălan asks to leave Concordia Chiajna
“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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Concordia Chiajna count the cost of losing Ivann Botella
17 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Ivann Botella 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 Concordia Chiajna this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Concordia Chiajna
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Squad19 Jul 2027
A row about effort at Concordia Chiajna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nicolae Carnat was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Concordia Chiajna rebuffed over Adrian Frănculescu
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. CFR Cluj have kept their man, and Concordia Chiajna go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2027
Ionut Mitrita steps up from the Concordia Chiajna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Ionut Mitrita has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Jul 2027
Bogdan Burca steps up from the Concordia Chiajna academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Bogdan Burca has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Cristian Iancu joins the Concordia Chiajna first team
- The dugout Concordia Chiajna keep their word to Rareş Lazăr
- The dugout Nicolae Carnat knocks on the manager’s door