The Rapid Bucharest Post
Squad23 Nov 2026
The knee: Mehdi Mohamed out for 49 days
49 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Rapid Bucharest lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings23 Nov 2026
Rareş Pop was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 24. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Match21 Nov 2026
Still nobody has beaten Rapid Bucharest
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad23 Nov 2026
Aldair Ferreira 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.
Match21 Nov 2026
Rapid Bucharest find a way past FC Argeș
FC Argeș made Rapid Bucharest work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Market23 Nov 2026
Daniel Puscas steps up from the Rapid Bucharest academy
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Daniel Puscas 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
One of our own: Daniel Cicaldau joins the Rapid Bucharest first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Cicaldau is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market23 Nov 2026
Rapid Bucharest promote Nicusor Burca from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Nicusor Burca 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.
Market23 Nov 2026
Rapid Bucharest promote Andrei Man from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Andrei Man 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.
In brief
- Player ratings Tobias Christensen in the eights
- Squad Tempers go at Rapid Bucharest
- Loan watch Cătălin Vulturar counts the days