Marius Coman

Left Midfielder - Dinamo Bucharest
16 Apr 2036
Wednesday
Process

Marked for Marius Coman

507 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

14 Apr 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Only the photograph left for Adrian Hermansen

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Adrian Hermansen will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Dinamo Bucharest the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad

Tempers go at Dinamo Bucharest

Cristian Mihai 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 Dinamo Bucharest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Lacko 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

When it matters, Cristian Mihai plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

The dugout

Adrian Hermansen is still being punished for one mistake

Nobody will confirm it and the team sheets confirm it every week. One error has bought him a spell as second choice that is already longer than the error deserved.

Market

The Stígur Diljan Þórðarson story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Stígur Diljan Þórðarson signs something — a contract at Dinamo Bucharest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

Marius Coman 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.

Market

The shop window has Marius Mihaila in it

Dinamo Bucharest have let the market know Marius Mihaila can be had. No price in the advert, but everyone in the trade knows roughly what it says.

Market

Still no signature from Adrian Hermansen

1 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Dinamo Bucharest could get for him.

In brief

Back issues
502 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

10 Mar 2036
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Lorenzo Grilli has one foot out of the door

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

Squad

Stígur Diljan Þórðarson 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 Dinamo Bucharest this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

The dugout

The manager has not finished forgetting Brice Ambina'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.

The dugout

When it matters, Mateo Flores plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

Loan watch

Nobody is scoring past Ethan Schulz at Politehnica Iași

7 shut-outs in 26 games. A goalkeeper’s loan is judged on the afternoons when nothing happened at all, and Ethan Schulz has been having a lot of them.

Market

The Wilfred George story refuses to die

It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Wilfred George signs something — a contract at Dinamo Bucharest or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.

The dugout

No hiding place for Marius Coman

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

Loan watch

David Weiss has made Politehnica Iași’s shirt his own

29 starts now, an average of 6.73, and the team sheet at Politehnica Iași has stopped being a question. Exactly what everybody signed up for.

Market

Still no signature from Lorenzo Grilli

3 months left and the two sides are nowhere near each other. Every week this drags on takes money off what Dinamo Bucharest could get for him.

In brief

498 Edition

The Dinamo Bucharest Herald

11 Feb 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Dinamo Bucharest are in among the leaders

Position 2 and 65 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.

Match

CFR Cluj end the Dinamo Bucharest run at 14

Every run ends on an afternoon somebody had marked down as routine. This one went 14 matches, which is long enough that a town had stopped counting, and short enough that it will remember exactly who stopped it.

Market

Lorenzo Grilli has one foot out of the door

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

Market

Jan Lacko 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 Dinamo Bucharest can pretend not to have heard.

Market

The Politehnica Iași deal is off

Everything was agreed until it was not, and Kayden Wolff reports back to Dinamo Bucharest with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.

The dugout

Marius Coman says Dinamo Bucharest 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

Words exchanged at Dinamo Bucharest

Cristian Mihai 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.

Match

Dinamo Bucharest come up short against CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj left with the points after a 0‑1 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“That is on me. I pick the team and I picked wrong.” Managers say that when they mean it and when they need to be seen to, and after 0‑1 Ionut Mihaila left the room before anybody could ask which.

In brief