The Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț Herald
Squad14 Mar 2033
The knee: David Avram out for 25 days
25 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Squad14 Mar 2033
Gabriel Dănuleasă breaks a bone — 27 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Market14 Mar 2033
Lukas Ljubojević puts it in writing
“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, and it is not being withdrawn.
Squad14 Mar 2033
Tempers go at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Dimitrije Tabaković was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad14 Mar 2033
A row about effort at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mark Ţuţu was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Loan watch14 Mar 2033
Issiaka Touré’s loan is measured in nothing happening
11 clean sheets from 27 appearances at ASA Târgu Mureș. That is the whole of a goalkeeper’s job done properly, and it is being done a long way from the club that owns him.
Boardroom14 Mar 2033
97% of the income goes out in wages at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Market14 Mar 2033
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț and David Avram are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout14 Mar 2033
Jovite Mvucani knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout When it matters, Bogdan Marian plays
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Emil Wind
- Market The Mark Ţuţu story refuses to die