Ely

Attacking Midfielder (L) - Metaloglobus Bucharest
6 Dec 2026
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Marked for Ely

18 Edition

The Metaloglobus Bucharest Sentinel

30 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match28 Nov 2026

No end in sight to Metaloglobus Bucharest's wait for a win

7 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at Metaloglobus Bucharest has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad30 Nov 2026

A falling-out at Metaloglobus Bucharest

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

Squad30 Nov 2026

Florin Purece 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.

Match28 Nov 2026

Unirea Slobozia take the points off Metaloglobus Bucharest

Beaten 0‑1, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Match30 Nov 2026

The half-term report on Metaloglobus Bucharest

Position 13, 14 points, and every result so far reduced to one line. The second half of the season starts with the same squad and a different set of expectations.

Player ratings30 Nov 2026

Laurenţiu Liş runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 16. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Razvan Iancu: “No excuses”

“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 0‑1, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.

The dugout30 Nov 2026

Ely 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.

Looking ahead30 Nov 2026

Mike Cestor faces his old club

CFR Cluj next, and one man in the Metaloglobus Bucharest dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

Back issues
10 Edition

The Metaloglobus Bucharest Sentinel

5 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Up for the corner, and Andrei Sava delivers — 7.36

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Andrei Sava scored, was marked 7.36, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Marius Briceag signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Marius Briceag commits to Metaloglobus Bucharest for another 1 years.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words exchanged at Metaloglobus Bucharest

Daniel Popa 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.

Match3 Oct 2026

Metaloglobus Bucharest see off Universitatea Cluj

Three points for Metaloglobus Bucharest, 3‑2 the final word against Universitatea Cluj in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Words at Metaloglobus Bucharest training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Ümit Akdağ 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 terraces5 Oct 2026

The crowd has taken to David Maftei

At 22 he is being sung about by people twice his age, which is an affection a signing has to earn over years and a local kid gets for turning up. It is also the hardest thing in football to live up to.

Squad5 Oct 2026

Ely is not the player he was

It happens to all of them and it is still the hardest paragraph a local paper has to write. 35 years old, 3 points down on where he was, and a body that has started charging interest on a career.

Player ratings5 Oct 2026

Laurenţiu Liş in the eights

A performance of 8.05 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

The dugout5 Oct 2026

Razvan Iancu: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 3‑2, already talking about the next one.

In brief