The Concordia Chiajna Courier
Squad8 Oct 2029
33 days out for Szilárd Veres 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.
Market8 Oct 2029
Théo Mary 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 Concordia Chiajna can pretend not to have heard.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Tempers go at Concordia Chiajna
Kristijan Blaževski 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.
Match6 Oct 2029
Concordia Chiajna find a way past FC Bacău
FC Bacău made Concordia Chiajna work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
The dugout8 Oct 2029
The manager makes an example of Domagoj Ivan Marić
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad8 Oct 2029
Concordia Chiajna lose George Cicaldau
34 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Player ratings8 Oct 2029
Ninety minutes of Andrei Gabriele Florea at his very best
Marked 8.29. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Concordia Chiajna.
Player ratings8 Oct 2029
Nicolae Carnat runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad8 Oct 2029
A row about effort at Concordia Chiajna
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Tidjane Sissoko was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
In brief
- Player ratings Tidjane Sissoko will replay that one
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Concordia Chiajna and Cosmin Gladun are talking past each other