The Petrolul Ploiești Chronicle
Squad24 Jul 2028
48 days out for Abat Aiymbetov after a fracture
A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Petrolul Ploiești will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.
Player ratings24 Jul 2028
Berna did the work nobody counts — 6.87
16 combined actions and 6.87. 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.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Tommi Jyry 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 Petrolul Ploiești this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Boardroom24 Jul 2028
5 academy graduates step up at Petrolul Ploiești
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
Transfer targets24 Jul 2028
Petrolul Ploiești rebuffed over Serges Ekollo
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ASA Târgu Mureș have kept their man, and Petrolul Ploiești go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad24 Jul 2028
Words at Petrolul Ploiești training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Andres Dumitrescu 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.
Match22 Jul 2028
Petrolul Ploiești cannot find the net
3 games without scoring. Strikers stop looking up, midfielders take the extra touch, and every shot that clears the bar is followed by a groan that has been building since the last goal.
Market24 Jul 2028
One of our own: Razvan Balasa joins the Petrolul Ploiești first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Razvan Balasa is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market24 Jul 2028
Petrolul Ploiești promote Marius Bancu from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Marius Bancu 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.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Dorin Chiriches joins the Petrolul Ploiești first team
- Market Andrei Burca steps up from the Petrolul Ploiești academy
- Match Petrolul Ploiești come up short against Universitatea Cluj