The CFR Cluj Sentinel
Market19 Jul 2027
Sebastian Mailat asks to leave CFR Cluj
“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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
5 academy graduates step up at CFR Cluj
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
DAC Dunajska Streda tell CFR Cluj: Matej Trusa 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Razvan Coman joins the CFR Cluj first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Razvan Coman is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market19 Jul 2027
Andrei Man steps up from the CFR Cluj academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Andrei Man has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market19 Jul 2027
CFR Cluj promote Razvan Mihaila from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Razvan Mihaila has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Christopher Braun 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.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Words exchanged at CFR Cluj
Ilija Mašić and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Alexandru Radu signs on for more
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Alexandru Radu and CFR Cluj agree another 4 years.
In brief
- Squad CFR Cluj lose Cosmin Puscas
- The dugout Andrei Cordea gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Alin Fică knocks on the manager's door