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5 Dec 2026
Saturday
Process

Marked for Ionuţ Mitran

8 Edition

The CSM Slatina Courier

21 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad

Mihai Răcăşan keeps CSM Slatina in it on his own

Some afternoons a goalkeeper is the team. 6 saves, several of them the sort nobody expects to see stopped, and a scoreline that flatters everybody in front of him.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Vlad Prejmerean delivers — 7.87

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Vlad Prejmerean scored, was marked 7.87, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Denis Zanc

CSM Slatina asked and Corvinul Hunedoara said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Squad

Words exchanged at CSM Slatina

Vlad Andreş 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.

The terraces

One of their own: Mihai Răcăşan

He is 19 and the ground already sings his name, which is a thing that happens to local boys and almost never to signings. Everything from here is measured against an affection he did nothing to earn except be from here.

Match

Vlad Prejmerean the difference as CSM Slatina beat CS Tunari

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Vlad Prejmerean. 2‑0 against CS Tunari, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Squad

100 appearances for Emilian Pacionel

100 games in these colours. Service of that kind gets rarer every season, and the crowd knows it.

The dugout

Nicusor Coman: “That is the standard”

“That is what I want every week. Not the result, the way they went about it.” The manager, after 2‑0, already talking about the next one.

Squad

A CSM Slatina teenager takes the young player award

Mihai Răcăşan is 19, and for one weekend he was the best of everybody his age in the division. Nobody should build a career on it and everybody quietly does.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The CSM Slatina Courier

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings

Rodrigo Hernando scores twice — 8.89

Two goals and a mark of 8.89 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

Mario Bărăitaru 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 CSM Slatina can pretend not to have heard.

Market

CSM Slatina turn down Voluntari for Ionuţ Mitran

The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.

Match

CSM Slatina make it 3 in a row

Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now CSM Slatina have 3 straight wins of it.

Market

Business is business: Óscar Siafá goes

Politehnica Iași paid $190.0K and CSM Slatina took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Cosmin Bîrnoi

CSM Slatina asked and ASA Târgu Mureș said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

CSM Slatina get the job done against CSC Dumbrăvița

A 2‑0 win over CSC Dumbrăvița, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad

Too much change too quickly at CSM Slatina

7 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.

The dugout

The manager’s verdict

“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Nicusor Coman kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.

In brief

4 Edition

The CSM Slatina Courier

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Óscar Siafá agrees terms with Politehnica Iași

The clubs have settled the fee and he has settled his wages. What remains is a medical and a photograph, and around CSM Slatina people have started saying his name in the past tense.

Market

Ionuţ Mitran asks to leave CSM Slatina

“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.

Player ratings

Up for the corner, and Andrei Traşcu delivers — 7.53

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Andrei Traşcu scored, was marked 7.53, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Felipe Felício

CSM Slatina asked and Panionios said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

CSM Slatina see off Politehnica Iași

Three points for CSM Slatina, 2‑0 the final word against Politehnica Iași in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Szilárd Magyari 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

Rodrigo Hernando was the difference for CSM Slatina

Marked 7.95. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Player ratings

Marius Lupu 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.

The dugout

A satisfied Nicusor Coman

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 2‑0, Nicusor Coman could afford to be generous.

In brief