Marked for Denis Haruţ
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market4 Jan 2027
“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.
Market4 Jan 2027
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings4 Jan 2027
Successful dribbles: 26. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad4 Jan 2027
An individual honour is a strange thing in a team game, and the best of them are never argued with. He has had the sort of year that ends with his name being read out, and Sepsi OSK have had the benefit of it.
Transfer targets4 Jan 2027
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. ASA Târgu Mureș have kept their man, and Sepsi OSK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Tudor Călin 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 Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad4 Jan 2027
Joonas Tamm 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 dugout4 Jan 2027
Joonas Tamm 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.
Match4 Jan 2027
Halfway: Sepsi OSK sit in position 5
35 points at the turn. The first half of a season is a promise; the second is a bill, and the town is about to find out which of the two this one was.
Back issues
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Steady
Match9 Dec 2026
The cup run ends for Sepsi OSK
0‑1 against Hermannstadt, and the road stops here. Cup exits are quick deaths — no second leg, no next week, just the league from now until May.
Loan watch14 Dec 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sepsi OSK, and 1 appearances in 17 say he has earned the hearing.
Match12 Dec 2026
CS Dinamo Bucharest left with the points after a 0‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Tudor Călin 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joonas Tamm 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.
Squad14 Dec 2026
An error at the back is a moment; an error in goal is a goal. Szilárd Gyenge knows it, the crowd knew it instantly, and there was nobody behind him to make it anything else.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Marius Dragusin after 0‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
The manager has not finished forgetting Dominik Ťapaj'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.
The dugout14 Dec 2026
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Marius Coman, and the manager let it.
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Upbeat
Player ratings7 Dec 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.03 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Match5 Dec 2026
It finished 2‑0, and it was Dino Skorup’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Sepsi OSK.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Adnan Aganović and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad7 Dec 2026
A row about effort at Sepsi OSK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Bogdan Oteliţă was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Marius Dragusin on a 2‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.
Market7 Dec 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
“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.
Squad7 Dec 2026
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Denis Haruţ has moved up it.
The dugout7 Dec 2026
Moses Mawa knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Sepsi OSK, and both men came out saying it was fine.
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Steady
Match28 Nov 2026
Metalul Buzău left with the points after a 2‑4 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
Squad30 Nov 2026
Tudor Călin and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
Dino Skorup ran the middle of the pitch — 7.90
He won it back and then made something of it, which is two jobs and the reason the scoreline looks the way it does. 10 combined actions and a mark of 7.90, and not one of them will make a highlights package.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
A performance of 8.06 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Boardroom30 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 102% of the Sepsi OSK income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
“I could talk about decisions and I could talk about luck. I will not. We lost.” The manager, 2‑4, and a press conference that lasted four minutes.
Player ratings30 Nov 2026
The cruellest goal, and it is Omar El-Sawy's
A touch he did not want, a bounce he could not have read, and his name in the wrong column. There is no consoling a man after one of these, and Sepsi OSK will not try tonight.
The dugout30 Nov 2026
Denis Haruţ 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.
In brief
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Squad
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
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Player ratings
Moses Mawa beats them one at a time
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The dugout
Cosmin Matei has become a man the manager trusts
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Tudor Călin 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.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Marked 7.24 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Sepsi OSK had the best player on the pitch.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“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.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Joeri de Kamps 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 dugout26 Oct 2026
“There are things I liked and things we will be doing on Tuesday until they are right.” 0‑0, and a manager who had already decided what Tuesday looked like.
Match24 Oct 2026
The crowd waited for a goal that never came. Concordia Chiajna defended in numbers and left with what they came for, and the two sides could be playing still without troubling a scorer.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Cosmin Matei gets picked when it counts
Every manager keeps a short list in his head of the men he wants on the pitch when the stakes rise, and it is never published. The team sheets for the big afternoons say Cosmin Matei is on it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Market26 Oct 2026
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Adnan Aganović 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.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
A mark of 7.76, and nobody in the ground would argue with it. He was involved in everything that mattered and most of what did not.
Loan watch21 Sep 2026
“I watch every Sepsi OSK game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at FC Bacău runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.
Market21 Sep 2026
He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Marius Dragusin could afford to be generous.
Squad21 Sep 2026
A row about effort at Sepsi OSK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Joeri de Kamps was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad21 Sep 2026
No place for Sven Blečić in the new shape
He is not being dropped. There is simply nowhere in the formation Sepsi OSK are playing to put a man who does what he does, which is a harder thing to be told than any team sheet.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Hunor Gedő 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.