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19 Aug 2027
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The Petrolul Courier

16 Aug 2027
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad16 Aug 2027

A one-man rearguard from Andrei Vlad

There were 7 saves in it, and at least three that had no business being saves at all. The ten outfield players owe him a drink and they know it.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Gabriel Silva will not be coming to Petrolul

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Sporting CP is saying, and nobody at Petrolul is enjoying the guessing.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

Benjamin Kanurić beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A falling-out at Petrolul

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

Squad16 Aug 2027

Cornel Râpă pulls a muscle — 19 days out

The injury that keeps coming back, keeps being rushed back from, and quietly costs more careers than the dramatic ones. 19 days is the estimate; the honest figure depends on whether anybody is patient.

Squad16 Aug 2027

A row about effort at Petrolul

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Benjamin Kanurić was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Transfer targets16 Aug 2027

Door shut on Sankara Karamoko

Petrolul asked and Wolfsberger AC said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match14 Aug 2027

FCSB take the points off Petrolul

Beaten 1‑2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.

Player ratings16 Aug 2027

A masterclass from Diogo Pinto

Marked 8.09 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

In brief

Back issues
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The Petrolul Courier

31 May 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The terraces31 May 2027

The mood at Petrolul has turned into something else

Supporters who sing when it goes badly are supporters. Supporters who gather afterwards are a problem, and everybody inside the building knows which of the two this now is.

Squad31 May 2027

Words exchanged at Petrolul

Valentin Creţu 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.

Squad31 May 2027

Zoran Mitrov 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.

The dugout31 May 2027

Rareş Bălan 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.

Market31 May 2027

The Natanaël Thio talk will not go away

Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Petrolul know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.

Squad31 May 2027

The training reports on Cornel Râpă are not good

A bad Saturday is forgiven; a bad Tuesday is chosen. Standards have slipped and in a building where everybody watches everybody, it has been noticed.

In brief