Christopher Braun

Right Back - CFR Cluj
26 Aug 2026
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The CFR Cluj Sentinel

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Match

FC Argeș punish CFR Cluj for switching off

2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Andrei Cordea will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at CFR Cluj escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.

Player ratings

Both of them Andrei Cordea's — 9.44

2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.44, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.

Market

Ovidiu Perianu 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 The request is on a desk at CFR Cluj, and it is not being withdrawn.

Market

CFR Cluj say no — this time

The offer from Ústí nad Labem for Ovidiu Perianu 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.

Transfer targets

Paul Argney will not be coming to CFR Cluj

Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Le Havre AC is saying, and nobody at CFR Cluj is enjoying the guessing.

Match

No end in sight to CFR Cluj's wait for a win

4 matches now without a victory, and the excuses have worn thinner than the patience. Somebody at CFR Cluj has to find a result from somewhere.

Squad

Tempers go at CFR Cluj

Sheriff Sinyan 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.

Transfer targets

Too dear: CFR Cluj walk away from Florinel Ibrian

$21.0K was the most the club would pay and Unirea Slobozia were asking for more. Deals like this are revived in the last week of a window roughly half the time, and everybody involved knows it.

Transfer targets

CFR Cluj rebuffed over Sandali Condé

Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. Admira Wacker have kept their man, and CFR Cluj go back to a list with one name crossed off it.

In brief

Back issues
3 Edition

The CFR Cluj Sentinel

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market

Yuval Sade agrees terms with CS Dinamo Bucharest

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

Player ratings

Francisco Barrios scores twice — 7.91

Two goals and a mark of 7.91 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Market

CFR Cluj say no — this time

The offer from Steaua Bucharest for Răzvan Gligor 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.

Boardroom

CFR Cluj go back to the board over Florinel Ibrian

The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $22.8K — a club that wants Florinel Ibrian enough to be asked twice.

Transfer targets

Pierce Charles turns down CFR Cluj

The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Manchester City keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.

Transfer targets

An offer of $21.0K for Florinel Ibrian

CFR Cluj have gone to Unirea Slobozia with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad

A falling-out at CFR Cluj

Carlos Mora and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Eyes on Viktor Kun again

The phone has started ringing about Viktor Kun again, and this time the name on the line is CSM Reșița. CFR Cluj are listening politely and promising nothing.

Squad

Christopher Braun 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