Daniel Bancu

Left Midfielder - Penafiel
18 Apr 2036
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Marked for Daniel Bancu

495 Edition

The Penafiel Post

21 Jan 2036
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market21 Jan 2036

Morrison Anokye 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 Penafiel can pretend not to have heard.

Squad21 Jan 2036

Tempers go at Penafiel

Léo Felix 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.

Squad21 Jan 2036

Words at Penafiel training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Dylan Duran 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.

Transfer targets21 Jan 2036

Braga tell Penafiel: Djibril Soumaré is not for sale

The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.

The dugout21 Jan 2036

No hiding place for Sotiris Kontouris

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

Squad21 Jan 2036

Penafiel 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.

Player ratings21 Jan 2036

Younes Zöllner takes the honours

Marked 7.23 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Penafiel had the best player on the pitch.

Boardroom21 Jan 2036

Penafiel can only buy what they sell

Nobody has barred the club from spending; it simply has nothing to spend that it has not first raised. Every incoming name comes with an outgoing one attached.

The dugout21 Jan 2036

Interim Coach on the point

“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Interim Coach after the 0‑0 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.

In brief

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484 Edition

The Penafiel Post

5 Nov 2035
From our football correspondent Steady

Match31 Oct 2035

Jose Martins sends Penafiel through

Cup ties wait for somebody to seize them, and Jose Martins obliged against Lusitânia Lourosa. 3‑0 on the night, and the name in the next round’s hat is Penafiel.

The dugout5 Nov 2035

Sotiris Kontouris: 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.” Penafiel have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings5 Nov 2035

Daniel Bancu could not have asked for more on his first appearance — 7.72

Debuts are survived rather than enjoyed. This one was enjoyed: 7.72, 0 goals, and a manager already being asked whether he starts again next week.

Squad5 Nov 2035

A one-man rearguard from Davi Guedes

There were 6 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Market5 Nov 2035

Víctor Santiago is on his way

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

Market5 Nov 2035

Ferley Valencia wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Léo Felix 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 Penafiel this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings5 Nov 2035

Kenay did the work nobody counts — 6.84

14 combined actions and 6.84. 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.

Squad5 Nov 2035

Dylan Duran 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.

In brief

442 Edition

The Penafiel Post

15 Jan 2035
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match15 Jan 2035

Nobody above Penafiel

First, on 36 points. The table is a fact and a fact is allowed to be enjoyed, which is as far as anybody at the club is prepared to go in public.

Market15 Jan 2035

Gil Vicente come back empty-handed

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

Market15 Jan 2035

Thiago Correa is on his way

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

Market15 Jan 2035

Jakub Bednarczyk 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 Penafiel can pretend not to have heard.

Boardroom15 Jan 2035

Thiago Correa signs for Moreirense while still at Penafiel

The rules permit it and it stings anyway. Thiago Correa has agreed terms with Moreirense for the summer, and until then he pulls on this shirt as a player who has already chosen his next one.

Squad15 Jan 2035

A falling-out at Penafiel

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

Market15 Jan 2035

Luiz Fernando moves on

Gil Vicente pay $410.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.

Squad15 Jan 2035

Daniel Bancu arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Daniel Bancu has, at Penafiel, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Squad15 Jan 2035

A row about effort at Penafiel

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

In brief