The Dinamo Bucharest Herald
Market14 Apr 2036
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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
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.
Squad14 Apr 2036
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 dugout14 Apr 2036
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 dugout14 Apr 2036
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.
Market14 Apr 2036
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 dugout14 Apr 2036
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.
Market14 Apr 2036
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.
Market14 Apr 2036
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
- Squad Marius Coman: “I am not a substitute”
- The dugout Nicusor Chiriches knocks on the manager's door
- Boardroom The Dinamo Bucharest production line keeps running