The FCSB Chronicle
Squad12 Feb 2029
68 days out for Eddy Gnahoré after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FCSB will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Market12 Feb 2029
Ivan Sergeev says no to Sanfrecce Hiroshima
“I listened, I thought about it, and I am staying. That is the whole story.” The clubs had agreed a fee. Ivan Sergeev had not agreed to go, which turned out to be the part that mattered.
Market12 Feb 2029
Terms done: Ciprian Bancu is going
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Astra waiting with a shirt. Nobody at FCSB is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
The dugout12 Feb 2029
Silviu Lung keeps the receipts
“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” FCSB may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.
Market12 Feb 2029
Only the photograph left for Mihai Toma
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Mihai Toma will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around FCSB the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Market12 Feb 2029
The Pandurii deal is off
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Silviu Lung reports back to FCSB with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Squad12 Feb 2029
A falling-out at FCSB
Denis Drăguş and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Feb 2029
David Miculescu 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.
Squad12 Feb 2029
FCSB lose Daniel Moldovan
32 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Darius Olaru plays
- The dugout Alexandru Pantea knocks on the manager’s door
- Match Continental football is in reach for FCSB