The Hermannstadt Sentinel
Market19 Jul 2027
Aurelian Chiţu 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.
Market19 Jul 2027
Diosgyor come back empty-handed
The bid was some way short and Hermannstadt did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Charlie Setford turns down Hermannstadt
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Ajax keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad19 Jul 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.
Boardroom19 Jul 2027
3 academy players handed senior numbers at Hermannstadt
The morning the pathway stops being a brochure and becomes a team sheet. Most of them will not be here in three years; all of them have already done the hard part, which was getting to today.
Squad19 Jul 2027
Loïc Mbe Soh 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.
Transfer targets19 Jul 2027
Hermannstadt rebuffed over Codruţ Sandu
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Dinamo Bucharest have kept their man, and Hermannstadt go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Market19 Jul 2027
One of our own: Ovidiu Burca joins the Hermannstadt first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ovidiu Burca 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
One of our own: Ciprian Burca joins the Hermannstadt first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Ciprian Burca is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Squad Too much change too quickly at Hermannstadt
- Transfer targets A loan move for Julian Eyestone is in the works
- The dugout No hiding place for Ştefan Lefter