Andrei Miron

Central Defender - Botosani
24 Jan 2027
Sunday
Process

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24 Edition

The Botosani Courier

11 Jan 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

Every point is an argument now for Botosani

Position 8 and 15 points, and the table gets read bottom-up in this part of town. The calendar has stopped being a schedule and started being a countdown.

Market

Rijad Sadiku asks to leave Botosani

“I have given everything here and I need a new challenge.” The request is formal, and the relationship will never be quite the same again.

Squad

Enriko Papa: 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.” Botosani have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.

Market

Botosani say no — this time

The offer from Dinamo Bucharest for Djibril Diaw was heard out and sent back the same day. First bids are rarely meant to succeed; they are meant to find out how loudly the door closes.

Squad

Tempers go at Botosani

Mihai Bordeianu 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

Adams Friday 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.

In brief

Back issues
21 Edition

The Botosani Courier

21 Dec 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Zoran Mitrov 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 Botosani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Words at Botosani training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Adams Friday 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.

Squad

The manager makes an example of Andrei Miron

“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.

In brief

  • Squad Marcelão asks for a word with the manager
13 Edition

The Botosani Courier

26 Oct 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Adams Friday breaks a bone — 33 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 33 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Match

The wait goes on for Botosani

9 without a win now, and the ground has developed the special quiet of a crowd that expects the worst. One scrappy 1-0 would cure most of it; that is the maddening part.

Market

Andrei Miron puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Botosani, and it is not being withdrawn.

Match

5 matches without a goal for Botosani

The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.

Squad

Mihai Bordeianu 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 Botosani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Hervin Ongenda 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.

Player ratings

Djibril Diaw was immovable

18 times he got in the way of something. Centre-halves get written about when they make mistakes and ignored when they do not, so an afternoon like this needs saying out loud: he is the reason the scoreline reads as it does.

Player ratings

Riad Šuta stands above it all

Some games turn on a moment; this one turned on a man. 7.70 on the card, and the Botosani support went home talking about one name.

Player ratings

Zoran Mitrov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 15. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief

9 Edition

The Botosani Courier

28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Squad

Giannis Anestis keeps Botosani in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 7 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Match

5 matches without a win for Botosani

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

Squad

Mihai Bordeianu 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 Botosani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Andrei Miron 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.

Player ratings

Nobody could get near Ştefan Bodişteanu

Successful dribbles: 16. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad

Miguel Muñoz 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Botosani Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Market

Eyes on Zoran Mitrov again

The phone has started ringing about Zoran Mitrov again, and this time the name on the line is Petrolul. Botosani are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Mihai Bordeianu 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 Botosani this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Hervin Ongenda 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.

Match

FCSB take the points off Botosani

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

Squad

No hiding place for Andrei Miron

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

Squad

The manager has not finished forgetting Hervin Ongenda's mistake

Publicly it is behind everybody. It is not behind the man who picks the team, and the only place that shows is a team sheet. He will get another chance; he will get it in a match that matters less.

Market

Răzvan Creţ told to find a new club

“They were honest with me, and I would rather know.” Răzvan Creţ has been informed he is not in the manager's thinking at Botosani.

Market

Experience through the door at Botosani

Eduardo Pucheta 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.

Player ratings

Zoran Mitrov runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 11. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

In brief