From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Match9 Oct 2027
10 matches without a win for CFR Cluj
The run now stands at 10, and the questions being asked around CFR Cluj are no longer polite ones.
Match9 Oct 2027
Still nobody has beaten CFR Cluj
The unbeaten run reaches 11. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Mihai Popescu commits to CFR Cluj for another 1 years.
Squad11 Oct 2027
“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.
Match9 Oct 2027
Honours even between CFR Cluj and FCSB
2-2, and both dressing rooms will call it two points lost. A draw that asked plenty of questions and answered none of them.
Squad11 Oct 2027
He wheeled away like a man who had been carrying it for months, because he had. CFR Cluj have their signing off the mark and one press-conference question retired.
Back issues
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Steady
Market5 Jul 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.
Squad5 Jul 2027
“The easiest signature of my career.” Mihai Popa and CFR Cluj agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market5 Jul 2027
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. CFR Cluj know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
From our football correspondent
Steady
Market18 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.
Squad18 Jan 2027
The medical room confirms 95 days on the sidelines for Damjan Đoković, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
Market18 Jan 2027
“I was told straight, and I would rather have it straight.” The manager at CFR Cluj has been clear about where Christopher Braun stands, which is more than many ever get.
Squad18 Jan 2027
Alibek Aliev 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.
Market18 Jan 2027
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. CFR Cluj will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
From our football correspondent
Uneasy
Market31 Aug 2026
Costel Avram hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what CFR Cluj can pretend not to have heard.
Match29 Aug 2026
5 matches without a win for CFR Cluj
The run now stands at 5, and the questions being asked around CFR Cluj are no longer polite ones.
Market31 Aug 2026
The paperwork is done: Riad Šuta joins from Botosani in a deal worth $470.0K. Now comes the harder part.
Squad31 Aug 2026
Alibek Aliev 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 Aug 2026
Both sides expect a conversation in the coming days. CFR Cluj will name a price, and everything after that is arithmetic.
The terraces31 Aug 2026
Every touch is being weighed now, in print and everywhere else. Some players grow into that and some are quietly ruined by it, and nobody knows which in advance.
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Crisis
Squad3 Aug 2026
There were 8 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Sheriff Sinyan and CFR Cluj agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Market3 Aug 2026
The name of Ovidiu Perianu has come up in conversations CFR Cluj were not part of. Nothing formal, nothing signed — but nothing about it accidental either.
Match1 Aug 2026
Beaten 0-2, and beaten fairly. The manager kept his words short afterwards, which was probably wise.
Squad3 Aug 2026
The manager makes an example of André Moreira
“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.
Market3 Aug 2026
The clock runs on Andrei Cordea's contract
49 months left and silence from upstairs — no offer, no talks, nothing for his people to answer. Clubs that let a calendar do their negotiating usually end up negotiating with the calendar.