The Universitatea Craiova Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Alexandru Cicâldău 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 Universitatea Craiova can pretend not to have heard.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 15 in, 10 out at Universitatea Craiova
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 15 arrived, 10 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Universitatea Craiova
Nicuşor Bancu 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Business is business: Silviu Lung goes
FCSB paid $29.0K and Universitatea Craiova took it, which is the whole story in one sentence. The longer version involves a wage budget and will be told all season.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
Metaloglobus Bucharest tell Universitatea Craiova: Gabriel Dumitru is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Pedro Pinho
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Pedro Pinho, and the manager let it.
Market7 Sep 2026
Still no ink between Universitatea Craiova and Steven Nsimba
“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Universitatea Craiova, another week without a signature from Steven Nsimba.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Universitatea Craiova training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Leon Zeqiraj 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.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A step back for Heriberto Tavares at Universitatea Craiova
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.
In brief
- Squad The armband comes off Nicuşor Bancu
- Market Régis Gurtner brings the grey hairs Universitatea Craiova lacked
- Looking ahead An away day at Metaloglobus Bucharest next for Universitatea Craiova