The CFR Cluj Sentinel
Match7 Sep 2026
CFR Cluj are in real trouble now
Position 8, 7 points, and a fixture list with fewer games left in it than excuses. The arithmetic is not cruel yet, but it has stopped being kind.
Squad7 Sep 2026
André Moreira keeps CFR Cluj 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.
Market7 Sep 2026
Razak Abdullah 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.
Match5 Sep 2026
CFR Cluj find a way past Universitatea Craiova
Universitatea Craiova made CFR Cluj work for it, but the scoreboard read 2-1 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Wages eat 224% of everything CFR Cluj earn
There is a figure at which a wage bill stops being ambitious and becomes the reason nothing else is possible, and this club has reached it. Nothing is left over for a transfer, a stand or a rainy afternoon.
Squad7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Karlo Muhar
“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.
In brief
- Squad Mohammed Kamara knocks on the manager's door
- Squad Sheriff Sinyan finally opens his account
- The terraces The press cannot get enough of Sheriff Sinyan
- The terraces Sheriff Sinyan has his own song now