The FCSB Chronicle
Match15 Aug 2026
FCSB taken apart
0‑3 to Universitatea Craiova, and it was every bit as bad as the number suggests. There are defeats you argue about and defeats you apologise for; this was the second kind.
Market17 Aug 2026
Levadia watching Alexandru Pantea
The interest is real enough to have reached print. FCSB have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Sergio Busquets 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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of Dylan Batubinsika
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Yusuke Matsuo 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.
Boardroom17 Aug 2026
Nobody left the FCSB dressing room in a hurry
The door stayed shut a long time after the final whistle. What was said in there is between them; whether it worked is between them and Saturday.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Too much change too quickly at FCSB
8 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Nobody could get near Juri Cisotti
Successful dribbles: 15. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Market17 Aug 2026
Experience through the door at FCSB
Joaquín Mattalia arrives at 34 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
In brief
- Market The Dylan Batubinsika question follows FCSB around
- Market The shop window has Valentin Creţu in it
- Player ratings The pass was always on for David Miculescu