Marked for Yohan Bilingi
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match14 Jun 2027
Nobody above FCSB
First, on 37 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
$5.5M on the table at Hapoel Tel Aviv. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
FCSB asked and Universitatea Craiova said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Market14 Jun 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Tempers go at FCSB
Juri Cisotti 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.
Transfer targets14 Jun 2027
No deal for Diogo Pinto at that price
FCSB offered $23.0K; Viitorul said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Squad14 Jun 2027
“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Claudiu Marin and FCSB agree another 4 years.
The dugout14 Jun 2027
Ofri Arad has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FCSB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad14 Jun 2027
Words at FCSB training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joyskim Dawa 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.
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Uneasy
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Universitatea Craiova have kept their man, and FCSB go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Ştefan Târnovanu commits to FCSB for another 5 years.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Juri Cisotti 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 FCSB this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Transfer targets7 Jun 2027
$30.0K on the table at Astra. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market7 Jun 2027
The phone has started ringing about Yohan Bilingi again, and this time the name on the line is CFR Cluj. FCSB are listening politely and promising nothing.
Loan watch7 Jun 2027
The goals keep arriving from Daniel Bîrligea’s exile
13 goals in 35 games at Frosinone — numbers that travel home faster than he does. Somebody at FCSB updates a spreadsheet every Monday, and it makes better reading each week.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Baba Alhassan, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Jun 2027
Denis Drăguş has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at FCSB will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Squad7 Jun 2027
Denis Drăguş moves up the pecking order
Nothing is announced when this happens and everybody knows. He is a bigger part of the plan at FCSB than he was a month ago, and the training ground worked that out before the team sheet said so.
In brief
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Market
The Denis Drăguş talk will not go away
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Boardroom
$4.9M a year onto the FCSB books
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Boardroom
Open for business: FCSB enter the window
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The dugout12 Oct 2026
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The terraces12 Oct 2026
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Market12 Oct 2026
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Market12 Oct 2026
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Player ratings12 Oct 2026
Darius Olaru was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.37. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
Squad12 Oct 2026
8 new faces, and FCSB are still learning each other
A squad rebuilt inside one window pays for it in a currency nobody budgets for. The football is not worse than the sum of the players; it is worse than the sum of the players who have played together before.
Squad12 Oct 2026
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yohan Bilingi commits to FCSB for another 3 years.