The CFR Cluj Sentinel
Squad19 Jul 2027
Allan Sousa damages knee ligaments — 36 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 36 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
Octavian Vâlceanu asks to leave CFR Cluj
“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
Tomáš Holeš 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 CFR Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
Graduation day at CFR Cluj
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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Meriton Korenica is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Cosmin Iancu joins the CFR Cluj first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cosmin Iancu 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
CFR Cluj promote Sergiu Burca from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Sergiu Burca 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
Andrei Maxim steps up from the CFR Cluj academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrei Maxim 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
When it matters, Meriton Korenica 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.