Daniel Deac

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13 Jul 2042
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789 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

9 Sep 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

A fracture rules Nicolò Vaccarezza out for 58 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CFR Cluj will talk about it more openly than they would about a knee. He will be back, and roughly when they say.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Şerban Tomache

29 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CFR Cluj lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad

Daniel Deac keeps the receipts

“I remember the meeting. I remember exactly what was promised in it.” CFR Cluj may remember it differently, which is precisely the problem.

Squad

Lucio Urquía signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Lucio Urquía commits to CFR Cluj for another 2 years.

Player ratings

A defender's afternoon for Pablo Ferreira

Defensive actions: 17. He was first to everything and second to nothing, and the goalkeeper had an easy day because of it.

Market

CFR Cluj and Nicolò Vaccarezza 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.

Player ratings

Viktor Damjanić stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.75 on the card, and the CFR Cluj support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Ianis Mihaila runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 14. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Match

Point won or two lost for CFR Cluj?

Ninety minutes, no goals, and the argument started before the car park emptied: a point gained, or two thrown away against Universitatea Craiova? Both sides of it will still be going on Thursday.

In brief

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776 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

10 Jun 2041
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

João Veloso 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 CFR Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

CFR Cluj agree a free transfer for Tjaš Begić

Nothing happens for months and then he simply arrives, at no cost, having signed a pre-contract while still turning out for somebody else. It is the least dramatic way to sign a footballer and frequently the shrewdest.

Squad

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tim Danhof 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.

Squad

Daniel Deac stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Daniel Deac and CFR Cluj agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Market

Petrolul are about to pick up the phone

A conversation is coming this week. CFR Cluj will put a number on him, and from there it stops being football and becomes arithmetic.

Squad

João Veloso knocks on the manager’s door

“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and João Veloso trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.

In brief

771 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

6 May 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at CFR Cluj spills outside the ground

It has stopped being a mood in the stands and started being something organised. Boards can ignore a bad atmosphere for a long time; they cannot ignore this stage of it for very long at all.

Boardroom

The interim tag comes off Interim Coach

CFR Cluj interviewed the field and appointed the corridor: Interim Coach keeps the job he had been doing in all but title. Sometimes the safest pair of hands is the one already holding the wheel.

Match

Every point is an argument now for CFR Cluj

Position 10 and 13 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Dorin Chiriches has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around CFR Cluj they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at CFR Cluj

Lucio Urquía 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.

Squad

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tommy Pilling 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.

In brief

755 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

14 Jan 2041
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

The mood at CFR Cluj has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Match

CFR Cluj sink to position 10

13 points, and a fixture list that is running out. The mathematics are not yet cruel, but they are no longer kind.

Squad

Viktor Damjanić breaks a bone — 43 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 43 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Voluntari come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and CFR Cluj did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

Squad

Lucio Urquía 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 CFR Cluj this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at CFR Cluj training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alessandro Tozzuolo 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.

In brief