Stefan Coman

Attacking Midfielder (R) - Free Agent
22 Sep 2028
Friday
Process

Marked for Stefan Coman

105 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

31 Jul 2028
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Simão Bertelli

85 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Pandurii lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

The wait goes on for Pandurii

12 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.

Squad

A fracture rules George Mitrita out for 39 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Pandurii will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Market

Only the photograph left for Daniel Haces

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Daniel Haces will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Pandurii the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Benjamín Sachelaridi is a better footballer than he was

Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 22 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.

Squad

Nicusor Coman 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 Pandurii this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match

Pandurii draw a blank against CFR Cluj

The crowd waited for a goal that never came. CFR Cluj defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.

Player ratings

An afternoon Dylan Sandoval will want back

Marked 5.47. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

Player ratings

An afternoon Rafael Porfírio will want back

Marked 5.62. Nothing he attempted worked and by the hour mark he had stopped attempting much, which is the part a manager notices rather than the mistakes.

In brief

Back issues
51 Edition

The Pandurii Chronicle

19 Jul 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Market

The unthinkable, invoiced: Mihai Nedelcearu sold

Manchester United arrived with $15.1M and left with the best player in the building. The board will call it business; the queue at the ticket office will use other words.

The terraces

Pandurii sell a favourite for $15.1M

The accountants will call it good business and they will be right, which is not the point anybody outside the boardroom is making. Mihai Nedelcearu was one of the reasons people came, and $15.1M does not replace that by itself.

Squad

Tempers go at Pandurii

Sergiu Bancu 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.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Pandurii

7 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Market

One of our own: Dragos Bancu joins the Pandurii first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dragos Bancu is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

One of our own: Stefan Coman joins the Pandurii first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Stefan Coman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Pandurii promote Stefan Ratiu from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Stefan Ratiu has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Squad

Ovidiu Chiriches 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.

Squad

When it matters, Simão Bertelli plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

  • Squad A wage question at Pandurii
  • Boardroom Pandurii spend it where nobody looks