The Viitorul Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
Ionuţ Panţîru damages knee ligaments — 18 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 18 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Razvan Balasa hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Viitorul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Razvan Chiriches 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 Viitorul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Graduation day at Viitorul
5 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Dragos Coman joins the Viitorul first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dragos Coman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2027
Viitorul promote Ianis Nedelcearu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ianis Nedelcearu 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Paul Cicaldau steps up from the Viitorul academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Paul Cicaldau 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Alex Baird wants to go home
“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and Viitorul know it.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Too much change too quickly at Viitorul
7 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.
In brief
- Loan watch Razvan Hagi has seen enough of Pescara
- Boardroom Viitorul spend it where nobody looks