Denis Ispas

Central Defender - CS Tunari
20 Feb 2027
Saturday
Process

Marked for Denis Ispas

22 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

28 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings

Brahima Doukansy goes up and wins it — 7.61

A defender on the scoresheet, which happens rarely enough that everybody in the ground remembers who took the corner. 1 for him, and a mark of 7.61 for the rest of it.

Squad

Words exchanged at CS Tunari

Dragoş Albu 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.

Match

Still nobody has beaten CS Tunari

The unbeaten run reaches 6. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.

Match

Domagoj Marušić the difference as CS Tunari beat FC Bacău

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Domagoj Marušić. 3‑1 against FC Bacău, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Boardroom

Wages eat 137% of everything CS Tunari earn

There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.

Match

FC Bacău blown away early

There is a particular helplessness in conceding 2 times before the twentieth minute. FC Bacău tried to reorganise, CS Tunari did not allow it, and the result was written long before it was confirmed.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Andreas Ivan

Marked 8.26 — 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.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Domagoj Marušić

Marked 8.17 — 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.

Squad

Luka Ivan Skoko wants to go home

“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at CS Tunari can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.

In brief

  • The dugout No hiding place for Denis Ispas
  • The dugout The manager’s verdict
  • Squad The first one for Andreas Ivan
Back issues
20 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

14 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Dragoş Albu 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 CS Tunari this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Domagoj Marušić

Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

A row about effort at CS Tunari

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

Match

CS Tunari and CS Afumați take a point apiece

It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.

The dugout

No hiding place for Luka Ivan Skoko

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Luka Ivan Skoko, and the manager let it.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nicusor Mitrita chose the glass-half-full version of 1‑1; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

Ionuţ Pop asks for a word with the manager

“I would rather say it to his face than read about it.” The meeting was requested by the player, which tells you most of what you need to know.

Looking ahead

Denis Ispas faces his old club

Concordia Chiajna next, and one man in the CS Tunari dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

Market

The Gabi Iancu talk will not go away

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

In brief

19 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

7 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

The dugout

Luka Ivan Skoko: that is not what I was promised

“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” CS Tunari have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Player ratings

Andreas Ivan beats them one at a time

Successful dribbles: 26. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.

Squad

Tempers go at CS Tunari

Dragoş Albu 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.

Squad

A step back for Bogdan Tănase at CS Tunari

Somebody has moved past him. It is not a dropping and it is worse than one, because a dropping is about a Saturday and this is about where he stands.

The dugout

The view from the dugout

“We did not lose. Some weeks that is all you get, and I would rather have the point than not.” Nicusor Mitrita chose the glass-half-full version of 0‑0; the supporters left with the other one.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Claudiu Dragu

“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.

Squad

Bookings catch up with Denis Ispas

One yellow too many, and a match watched from the stand. The most avoidable absence in football, and CS Tunari will feel it on Saturday.

Match

No goals between CS Tunari and CSC Dumbrăvița

Ninety minutes, two goalkeepers with clean gloves, and not one finish worth keeping. CSC Dumbrăvița will be the happier side with the point.

Looking ahead

Rareş Trif faces his old club

CS Afumați next, and one man in the CS Tunari dressing room knows their training ground better than his own. The reception will tell him what they thought of him.

In brief

8 Edition

The CS Tunari Herald

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Squad

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matei Afonso

75 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. CS Tunari lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Match

5 matches without a win for CS Tunari

The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around CS Tunari are no longer polite ones.

Transfer targets

Immanuel Hess turns down CS Tunari

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: another club keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Squad

Tempers go at CS Tunari

Gabi Iancu 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.

Squad

A row about effort at CS Tunari

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

Match

A bad afternoon for CS Tunari against CSM Slatina

0‑2 to CSM Slatina, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Nicusor Mitrita answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 0‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

The manager makes an example of Denis Ispas

“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.

Squad

The formation has left Noah Medalli behind

Every shape has positions in it and this one does not have his. CS Tunari will either change the shape, change his job, or change his club, and he is waiting to hear which.

In brief