Sergiu Mitrita

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30 Oct 2030
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Process

Marked for Sergiu Mitrita

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The Universitatea Craiova Herald

5 Nov 2029
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Ianis Deac asks to leave Universitatea Craiova

“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.

Player ratings

Steven Nsimba, 33, rolls back the years — 8.03

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.03 at 33, and nobody on the pitch was better.

The dugout

Sergiu Mitrita says Universitatea Craiova went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

Sheriff Sinyan 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 Universitatea Craiova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Universitatea Craiova training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oleksandr Romanchuk 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Matteo Duţu

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.

Match

Universitatea Craiova find a way past Viitorul

Viitorul made Universitatea Craiova work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Player ratings

Heriberto Tavares in the eights

A performance of 8.30 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Matteo Duţu

Marked 8.27 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

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156 Edition

The Universitatea Craiova Herald

23 Jul 2029
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Aleksa Marković

99 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Universitatea Craiova lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Răzvan Sava keeps Universitatea Craiova in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Market

Daniel Semedo 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 Universitatea Craiova can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

The step up is real for Matheus Mattara

At 22 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.

Squad

Oleksandr Romanchuk 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 Universitatea Craiova this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Universitatea Craiova

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.

Transfer targets

Dinamo Zagreb tell Universitatea Craiova: Luka Ivanušec is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

Match

Universitatea Craiova come up short against Dinamo Bucharest

Dinamo Bucharest left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Market

One of our own: Cristian Mihaila joins the Universitatea Craiova first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Mihaila is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

In brief