The Concordia Chiajna Courier
Squad29 Nov 2027
A knee injury of the worst kind for David Dănăilă
70 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Concordia Chiajna lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Match27 Nov 2027
Whatever happens, Concordia Chiajna do not lose
13 games unbeaten now. Some were earned and some were survived, but a habit is forming — and habits are the hardest thing in football to play against.
Squad29 Nov 2027
8 saves: Łukasz Bomba was the team
Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 8 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.
Match29 Nov 2027
Concordia Chiajna are in among the leaders
Position 3 and 34 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Squad29 Nov 2027
A falling-out at Concordia Chiajna
Łukasz Bomba and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad29 Nov 2027
Darius Grigore 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.
The terraces29 Nov 2027
One of their own: Łukasz Bomba
He is 23 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.
The dugout29 Nov 2027
The manager makes an example of Nicolae Carnat
“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.
Boardroom29 Nov 2027
Wages eat 122% of everything Concordia Chiajna earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
In brief
- Player ratings Heriberto Tavares was unplayable
- The dugout The manager’s verdict
- Market Daniel Nedelcearu is free to find somewhere else