The Dinamo Bucharest Herald
Match8 Dec 2027
Cup progress for Dinamo Bucharest
A 2‑0 win over Politehnica Iași, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
A debut Razvan Cicaldau will not forget — 7.31
There is exactly one of these per career and it does not usually go like this. 1 on the scoresheet, 7.31 beside the name, and a crowd that had never seen him before chanting it by the end.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Alexandru Musi was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 22. 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.
The terraces13 Dec 2027
Dinamo Bucharest supporters have found a favourite in Adrian Caragea
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 22-year-old it feels ownership of. Adrian Caragea has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Ninety minutes of Leverton Pierre at his very best
Marked 8.09. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Dinamo Bucharest.
Squad13 Dec 2027
A falling-out at Dinamo Bucharest
Yohan Roche and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad13 Dec 2027
Words at Dinamo Bucharest training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Costin Amzăr 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.
Player ratings13 Dec 2027
Nobody on the pitch touched Andrei Mărginean
7.56, and no serious argument from anybody who was there. Dinamo Bucharest had eleven men on the pitch and one of them decided how it went.
The dugout13 Dec 2027
Yohan Roche gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
In brief
- The dugout Cătălin Cîrjan gets picked when it counts
- The dugout Half-satisfied: Paul Mihaila on the draw
- Squad Alexandru Musi has to sit this one out