Andrei Mitrita

Central Defender - CSM Slatina
30 Aug 2036
Saturday
Process

Marked for Andrei Mitrita

522 Edition

The CSM Slatina Courier

28 Jul 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

A fracture rules Omar El Saaiy out for 27 days

Bones knit. That is the one merciful thing about this injury and the reason CSM Slatina 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 Giannis Alexandrakis

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

Squad

Andrei Mitrita gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Andrei Mitrita has just signed for CSM Slatina, and for once the answer mattered.

Transfer targets

No thanks: Zac Hadi rejects the move

CSM Slatina had done everything except persuade the man himself. He stays at Unirea Slobozia, and the manager goes back to the drawing board with the money still in the bank.

Squad

Lukas Ljubojević stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Lukas Ljubojević and CSM Slatina agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Boardroom

CSM Slatina beat the market to Arsenie Mocan from FC Argeș

FC Argeș will keep picking him until June and will get nothing for him after it. Arsenie Mocan has pre-agreed a move to CSM Slatina, and the only people who lose in that arrangement are the ones who let the contract run down.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Silas Bjerre

CSM Slatina asked and Dinamo Bucharest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Player ratings

Andrei Dumitru ran the middle of the pitch — 6.78

He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 11 combined actions and a mark of 6.78, and not one of them will make a highlights package.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Brian Atangana's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

In brief

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473 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

20 Aug 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

FC Bacău give the job to Interim Coach

The club looked outside for a month, found nothing it preferred, and handed the job to the man who had been doing it anyway. He knows the building; now he has to prove he knows the rest.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zakariya Jdirri

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

Match

Chastening afternoon for FC Bacău

A 0‑3 beating by Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț was the sort of result that empties a stadium long before the final whistle.

Market

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău can pretend not to have heard.

Market

Mattia Siviero has one foot out of the door

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

Transfer targets

Cosmin Nita turns down FC Bacău

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: FC Argeș keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Bacău

George Leaţă 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.

Transfer targets

FC Bacău rebuffed over Paul Maxim

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Rapid Bucharest have kept their man, and FC Bacău go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Bacău

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

In brief

469 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

23 Jul 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Boardroom

the manager is out at FC Bacău

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Zakariya Jdirri

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

Squad

17 days out for Lukas Nielsen after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. FC Bacău will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Boardroom

An empty coaching office at FC Bacău

There is nobody left to promote and nobody left to run a session. The board have brought in a name the supporters do not know, and the question of how a club gets here will outlast whoever answers it.

Market

Andrei Mitrita asks to leave FC Bacău

“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.

Boardroom

Interim Coach steps up at FC Bacău for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

Market

Mattia Siviero is on his way

The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at FC Bacău is pretending he will be back in the shirt.

Squad

Edgar Cadar keeps FC Bacău in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

The dugout

Egor Nagornyi: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” FC Bacău have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

In brief

465 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

25 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

The knee: Zakariya Jdirri out for 115 days

115 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. FC Bacău lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Boardroom

Pressure builds in the FC Bacău boardroom

The directors have stopped offering the manager public warmth. In football that is usually the stage before the short statement.

Squad

Lukas Nielsen breaks a bone — 45 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 45 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Market

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

FC Bacău lose Andrei Mitrita

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

Transfer targets

Ovidiu Maxim turns down FC Bacău

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Farul Constanța keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Dorin Maxim

FC Bacău asked and Farul Constanța said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Alexandru Predică 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.

The dugout

George Leaţă asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

In brief

462 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

4 Jun 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

FC Bacău put the manager on notice

The board have said in public what they had been saying in private. Results between now and the next meeting decide it, and everybody in the building knows the arithmetic.

Market

Dominik Baumgartner asks to leave FC Bacău

“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.

Squad

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Boardroom

$468.5K of the owner's money at FC Bacău

The shortfall was covered from upstairs again. Supporters are entitled to be relieved and entitled to ask what happens the month it is not, and both feelings usually arrive together.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Daniel Man

FC Bacău asked and Rapid Bucharest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Bacău

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

Boardroom

Wages eat 138% of everything FC Bacău earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at FC Bacău

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

Squad

FC Bacău lose Stephen Brown

33 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

459 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

14 May 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the FC Bacău board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

No end in sight to FC Bacău's wait for a win

5 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at FC Bacău has to find a result from somewhere.

The dugout

Kaspars Cauna says FC Bacău went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Squad

George Leaţă 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 FC Bacău this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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.

Boardroom

FC Bacău are $12.0M 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.

Squad

Keagan Tau wants to go home

“I have given this everything, but my family is not here and neither am I, not really.” A footballer can be coached out of bad form. Nobody has ever been coached out of this, and FC Bacău know it.

The dugout

A promise honoured for Kamil Szymanski

It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. FC Bacău told Kamil Szymanski something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.

In brief

457 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

30 Apr 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

Boardroom

The silence upstairs is getting loud at FC Bacău

Nobody on the board has said anything against the manager, which is the point — they have stopped saying anything for him either.

Market

George Leaţă 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 FC Bacău, and it is not being withdrawn.

Player ratings

No sign of nerves from Dorin Burca at 21 — 8.10

The hardest thing about being 21 in a senior side is that nobody makes allowances. Dorin Burca did not need any: 8.10, and he looked the most comfortable man on the pitch.

The dugout

Mihai Dragusin keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at FC Bacău

Andrei Mitrita 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

A row about effort at FC Bacău

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

Match

FC Bacău come up short against Voluntari

Voluntari left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for George Leaţă

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to George Leaţă, and the manager let it.

Player ratings

Andrei Şucu did the work nobody counts — 6.92

11 combined actions and 6.92. The job he did is the one that shows up as other people looking good, and the only reliable way to notice it is to watch what happens on the afternoons he is missing.

In brief

  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • The dugout Andrei Mitrita asks for a word with the manager
  • Player ratings Nobody could get near Jayden Rus
450 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

12 Mar 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

FC Bacău are in real trouble now

Position 20, 26 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.

Squad

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Dorin Burca is the real thing at 21

A season average of 7.00 at an age when most of his year group are still in the youth team. FC Bacău know what they have, and so, by now, does everybody else.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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.

Boardroom

Wages eat 172% of everything FC Bacău earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Boardroom

No signings allowed at FC Bacău

The manager may talk to whoever he likes and may pay nobody. A squad survives a window like this by borrowing, by promoting, and by hoping the injuries land somewhere else.

The dugout

Andriy Burda 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.

Boardroom

The FC Bacău debt reaches $12.4M

Football clubs borrow; that is not the story. Borrowing more than the facility allows is, because from here it is the owner's money or somebody else's decision, and neither of those belongs to the board.

Squad

Home is on Keagan Tau's mind

“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; FC Bacău are dealing with a man who wants a different country.

In brief

447 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

19 Feb 2035
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces

Anger at FC Bacău 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.

Market

Andrei Şucu asks to leave FC Bacău

“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.

Squad

George Leaţă 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 FC Bacău this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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.

Match

FC Bacău get the job done against CSM Slatina

A 1‑0 win over CSM Slatina, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings

George Leaţă beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 16. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Player ratings

Ianis Gândilă stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.98 on the card, and the FC Bacău support went home talking about one name.

Market

FC Bacău and Andrei Mitrita 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.

Squad

FC Bacău are still strangers to each other

6 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.

In brief

  • The dugout the manager: “That is the standard”
  • The dugout The manager makes an example of Igor Gąsławski
  • The dugout Matteo Zanetti asks for a word with the manager
443 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

22 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the FC Bacău board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Andrei Şucu 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 FC Bacău can pretend not to have heard.

Transfer targets

Dorin Maxim is a medical away from FC Bacău

The deal with Farul Constanța is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Bacău

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

Player ratings

Jayden Rus beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 21. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Yanil Ammiche

FC Bacău asked and Oțelul Galați said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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.

Match

FC Bacău come up short against FC Bihor Oradea

FC Bihor Oradea left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

No hiding place for Ionuţ Gurău

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Ionuţ Gurău, and the manager let it.

In brief

  • The dugout the manager answers for it
  • Player ratings The afternoon ran through Dorin Burca
  • The dugout Andrei Mitrita asks for a word with the manager
439 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

25 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

The terraces

Supporters organise against the FC Bacău board

A bad atmosphere can be waited out. A group of people meeting afterwards to decide what to do about it cannot, and everybody in the building knows which stage this is.

Market

Andrei Şucu 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 FC Bacău, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

The wait goes on for FC Bacău

6 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

The dugout

Kaspars Cauna keeps the receipts

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

Squad

Tempers go at FC Bacău

George Leaţă 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.

Match

FC Bacău come up short against Unirea Slobozia

Unirea Slobozia left with the points after a 1‑3 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

Squad

Alexandru Predică 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.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Andrei Mitrita

“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.

Player ratings

Andrei Şucu in the eights

A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

In brief

  • Squad 100 appearances for Andrei Şucu
  • Match FC Bacău at the halfway mark
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
436 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

4 Dec 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Boardroom

Interim Coach is out at FC Bacău

Four paragraphs on the club website, none of them about football. The board thanked him, wished him well, and had the search under way before the page went up.

Boardroom

FC Bacău have nobody left to take training

Not an interim appointment — an institution with an empty coaching office. Somebody unfamiliar will run the sessions this week, and the question of how a club gets into this state is one the board will be asked and will not answer.

Market

Matteo Zanetti asks to leave FC Bacău

“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.

Squad

Ionuţ Gurău stands alone

8 saves, and a scoreline the ten men in front of him had no right to. Goalkeepers only get noticed on the bad days; this was one of the other ones.

Boardroom

Interim Coach steps up at FC Bacău for now

“Somebody picks the team on Saturday. This week it is me, and that is as far as I have thought.” No promises were made in either direction, which is how these usually begin.

The dugout

Zakariya Jdirri says FC Bacău went back on their word

“I was told what my role would be, and I signed on that basis. It has not happened.” A grievance with a date attached is the hardest kind to settle.

Player ratings

Dorin Burca 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.

Squad

A falling-out at FC Bacău

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

Boardroom

The owner puts $587.9K into FC Bacău

This is money that keeps the lights on rather than money that buys a centre-half, and the difference is the whole story. A club funded by its owner rather than by its football has exactly one conversation left ahead of it.

In brief

434 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

20 Nov 2034
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

FC Bacău sink to position 21

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

Market

Stefan Bancu 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 FC Bacău, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Bacău

Kamil Szymanski 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.

Squad

A row about effort at FC Bacău

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

The dugout

Dorin Burca 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.

The dugout

Dominik Baumgartner 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 FC Bacău, and both men came out saying it was fine.

Market

The Andrei Mitrita talk will not go away

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

Market

The clock does Ionuţ Gurău’s negotiating for him

6 months left, and both sides know what that means: every week without a signature, the fee FC Bacău could ask drops and the wages Ionuţ Gurău can ask rise.

Market

Paul Dragusin placed on the list

FC Bacău have made Paul Dragusin available for transfer. A career at this club is over in all but paperwork.

In brief

430 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

23 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

FC Bacău sink to position 21

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

Market

Stefan Bancu asks to leave FC Bacău

“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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Jayden Rus

Successful dribbles: 22. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Words exchanged at FC Bacău

George Leaţă 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.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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.

Market

FC Bacău promote George Burca from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. George Burca has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market

Marius Marin steps up from the FC Bacău academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Marius Marin has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Market

Sergiu Man steps up from the FC Bacău academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Sergiu Man has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

The dugout

Andrei Mitrita 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

429 Edition

The FC Bacău Post

16 Oct 2034
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Paul Dragusin 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 FC Bacău can pretend not to have heard.

Squad

Andrei Mitrita 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 FC Bacău this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at FC Bacău training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Alexandru Predică 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 dugout

George Leaţă asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Andrei Şucu faces his old club

Gloria Bistrița next, and one man in the FC Bacău dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Andrei Şucu question follows FC Bacău around

Every press conference now starts and ends the same way: with Andrei Şucu’s future. The manager has run out of new ways to say nothing.

Squad

Igor Gąsławski remains an outsider

A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at FC Bacău would admit. It shows on Saturdays.

Market

Still no ink between FC Bacău and Matteo Zanetti

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at FC Bacău, another week without a signature from Matteo Zanetti.

Market

Arseny Belov runs his contract down

1 months remain and no agreement is close. Every week without a signature costs FC Bacău money.

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