The Metaloglobus Bucharest Sentinel
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Mario Ilie runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 26. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Player ratings18 Sep 2028
Up for the corner, and Cătălin Vulturar delivers — 7.92
Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Cătălin Vulturar scored, was marked 7.92, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
Adrian Iancu keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” Metaloglobus Bucharest may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Tempers go at Metaloglobus Bucharest
Daniel Popa 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.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Emmanuel Bably signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Emmanuel Bably commits to Metaloglobus Bucharest for another 5 years.
Match16 Sep 2028
Metaloglobus Bucharest find a way past FC Bacău
FC Bacău made Metaloglobus Bucharest work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Squad18 Sep 2028
A row about effort at Metaloglobus Bucharest
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Nikola Gjorgjev was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad18 Sep 2028
Metaloglobus Bucharest lose Andrei Burca
25 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
The dugout18 Sep 2028
A promise honoured for Jibril Othman
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Metaloglobus Bucharest told Jibril Othman something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
In brief
- The dugout Metaloglobus Bucharest pick somebody else ahead of George Gavrilaş
- The dugout The view from the dugout
- Market Daniel Popa placed on the list