The Hermannstadt Sentinel
Match20 Feb 2027
Hermannstadt taken apart
0‑3 to FK Csíkszereda, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market22 Feb 2027
Christ Afalna asks to leave Hermannstadt
“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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Saeed Issah is on his way
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Hermannstadt is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Squad22 Feb 2027
David Lazar 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 Hermannstadt this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Christ Afalna 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Hermannstadt promote Ianis Coman from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ianis Coman 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.
Market22 Feb 2027
Sergiu Keseru steps up from the Hermannstadt academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergiu Keseru 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.
The dugout22 Feb 2027
Christ Afalna left out for the big one
A player who expected to start watched it instead. The manager will call it a decision for the team; Christ Afalna will call it something else in private.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
Nobody left the Hermannstadt dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
In brief
- The dugout Nicusor Nita answers for it
- The dugout Dragoş Albu gets it from the manager
- The dugout Dennis Politic knocks on the manager's door