Mark Phillips

Left Midfielder - Free Agent
20 Aug 2034
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Marked for Mark Phillips

357 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

30 May 2033
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad30 May 2033

Carlo Casap breaks a bone — 66 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 66 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Squad30 May 2033

A season's verdict on Florin Ratiu: the best of his age

Gloria Bistrița have a 21-year-old the division has just voted its finest young footballer. The club's next problem is that everybody else now knows it too.

Market30 May 2033

Only the photograph left for Florin Ratiu

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Florin Ratiu will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Gloria Bistrița the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad30 May 2033

Words exchanged at Gloria Bistrița

David Niţu and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.

Squad30 May 2033

A row about effort at Gloria Bistrița

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Abdul Rahman Weiss was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Market30 May 2033

A long bet from Gloria Bistrița on Dennis Simon

He is 20, and nobody at Gloria Bistrița signed him for this season. Deals like this are judged in four years, by people who may not still be in the building.

The dugout30 May 2033

Tommaso Boro has become a man the manager trusts

Nobody at Gloria Bistrița will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.

Market30 May 2033

The Teo Herceg talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Gloria Bistrița know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Market30 May 2033

The shop window has Jonah Walker in it

Gloria Bistrița have let the market know Jonah Walker can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

In brief

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324 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

11 Oct 2032
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad11 Oct 2032

A falling-out at Gloria Bistrița

Robert Geantă and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Words at Gloria Bistrița training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Carlo Casap 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.

The dugout11 Oct 2032

Ianis Spînu 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.

Boardroom11 Oct 2032

Gloria Bistrița are $17.4M in the red

The borrowing is past what the bank agreed, which is the line where a debt stops being how football is financed and starts being a problem. Every phone-in in this town will quote the figure for the next five years.

Squad11 Oct 2032

Sherzod Majidov wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Gloria Bistrița can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

Market11 Oct 2032

Talks stall between Gloria Bistrița and Ianis Spînu

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Squad11 Oct 2032

7 new faces, and Gloria Bistrița are still learning each other

A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.

Market11 Oct 2032

Gloria Bistrița buy the years ahead of Andrew Smith

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Market11 Oct 2032

No place for Mark Phillips in the plan

“The manager did not use many words, and he did not need to.” Mark Phillips has his answer from Gloria Bistrița; what he does with it is the next window’s story.

In brief

321 Edition

The Gloria Bistrița Chronicle

20 Sep 2032
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad20 Sep 2032

7 saves: Octavian Vâlceanu was the team

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the whole of the defence. 7 saves, several of them the kind nobody expects to see made, and ten outfield players who owe him a drink.

Player ratings20 Sep 2032

No sign of nerves from Florin Ratiu at 20 — 7.86

The hardest thing about being 20 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Florin Ratiu did not need any: 7.86, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

Market20 Sep 2032

Mark Phillips hands in a written request

“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Gloria Bistrița can pretend not to have heard.

Squad20 Sep 2032

Robert Geantă 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 Gloria Bistrița this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad20 Sep 2032

A row about effort at Gloria Bistrița

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Carlo Casap was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Boardroom20 Sep 2032

Francesco Gatto will join Gloria Bistrița for nothing

The paperwork is done long before the player is. Francesco Gatto has agreed terms to come here when his current deal runs out, which means Gloria Bistrița have spent a summer's transfer budget on a phone call.

Match18 Sep 2032

A bad afternoon for Gloria Bistrița against Oțelul Galați

1‑2 to Oțelul Galați, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Squad20 Sep 2032

The decline has begun for Abdul Rahman Weiss

Everybody saw it before anybody said it. At 34 the numbers say 3 points down on what he was, and the question for Gloria Bistrița is how to handle a man they owe a great deal.

The dugout20 Sep 2032

Interim Coach faces the questions

“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Interim Coach after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.

In brief