The Petrolul Courier
Squad24 Jan 2028
A knee injury of the worst kind for Javier Calle
134 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Petrolul lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Squad24 Jan 2028
A fracture rules Ian out for 130 days
Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason Petrolul will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.
Market24 Jan 2028
Gianluca Cangiano 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 Petrolul can pretend not to have heard.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Remus Guţea keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Petrolul may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad24 Jan 2028
Florin Ştefan 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 Petrolul this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Market24 Jan 2028
One of our own: Dragos Marin joins the Petrolul first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Dragos Marin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market Petrolul promote Marius Coman from within
- Market Daniel Nita steps up from the Petrolul academy