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Steady
The dugout2 Nov 2026
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Sepsi OSK have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Player ratings2 Nov 2026
Successful dribbles: 22. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad2 Nov 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad2 Nov 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
Loan watch2 Nov 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sepsi OSK, and 1 appearances in 9 say he has earned the hearing.
Squad2 Nov 2026
14 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
Squad2 Nov 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Rafael Assis and Sepsi OSK agree another 1 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Boardroom2 Nov 2026
Wages swallow 92% of the Sepsi OSK income
Every club pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time it has been tried.
Match31 Oct 2026
A 1‑1 draw with Chindia Târgoviște leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.
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Steady
Squad26 Oct 2026
A row about effort at Sepsi OSK
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Oskar Pietuszewski was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Squad26 Oct 2026
Adnan Aganović 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.
Match24 Oct 2026
Concordia Chiajna left with the points after a 1‑2 defeat that will take some explaining on the terraces.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Andrei Vlad 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.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
“We were not good enough today and I am not going to dress it up.” Ionut Dragusin after 1‑2, in the tone of a man who knows the next question and does not intend to answer it.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Carl Davordzie has become a man the manager trusts
Nobody at Sepsi OSK will say this on the record and the team sheets have been saying it for weeks. There is a small group in every squad who get picked when the fixture is difficult, and he has joined it.
Player ratings26 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 10. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
The dugout26 Oct 2026
Ninety specific minutes wanted a different sort of player, and the manager picked one. He is not out of form and he is not in the side, and both are true.
Market26 Oct 2026
The Moses Mawa talk will not go away
Another week, another link, another denial nobody quite believes. Sepsi OSK know the market decides these things, not the back pages — but the back pages are louder.
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Steady
Match14 Oct 2026
Sepsi OSK through in the cup
A 2‑1 win over Concordia Chiajna, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Two goals and a mark of 8.77 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Adnan Aganović, 39, rolls back the years — 7.87
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.87 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market19 Oct 2026
Hunor Gedő has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Sepsi OSK they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Match17 Oct 2026
2‑3 to Steaua Bucharest, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
Player ratings19 Oct 2026
Successful dribbles: 20. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Adnan Aganović 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 terraces19 Oct 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 16-year-old it feels ownership of. Mihai Bancu has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Squad12 Oct 2026
Andrei Vlad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad12 Oct 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
Clubs make promises constantly and the page usually only hears about them when they are broken. This one was honoured, and the dressing room noticed that faster than any supporter did.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
The manager makes an example of Mihai Bancu
“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.
Looking ahead12 Oct 2026
He used to wear the other shirt. On Saturday he plays against Steaua Bucharest in this one, and whatever he says this week about it being just another game will be untrue.
Squad12 Oct 2026
A year in and the city has not opened up, the language has not come, and lunch is eaten alone more often than anybody at Sepsi OSK would admit. It shows on Saturdays.
Market12 Oct 2026
The Andrei Vlad story refuses to die
It has been denied twice and printed three times, which is the usual arithmetic. Until Andrei Vlad signs something — a contract at Sepsi OSK or anywhere else — this column belongs to him.
Market12 Oct 2026
“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.
The dugout12 Oct 2026
A conversation in the manager’s office, and a commitment that came out of it. Promises like that are cheap to make and expensive to break, and Carl Davordzie has written the date down.
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Upbeat
Player ratings5 Oct 2026
Adnan Aganović, 39, rolls back the years — 7.85
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.85 at 39, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Squad5 Oct 2026
A move Toni Gulam would have made for nothing
There is a version of every career where the player ends up somewhere he chose rather than somewhere that chose him. Toni Gulam is living that version at Sepsi OSK, and it tends to show in the first month.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Andrei Vlad in a row with a teammate
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad5 Oct 2026
Words at Sepsi OSK training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
Boardroom5 Oct 2026
104% of the income goes out in wages at Sepsi OSK
Every club in football pays most of what it earns to its players. Paying nearly all of it is a different arrangement, and it has ended the same way every time somebody has tried it.
Squad5 Oct 2026
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Sepsi OSK can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
Loan watch5 Oct 2026
“I am grateful for the games, but I did not become a footballer to be somebody else's spare part.” He wants to be at Sepsi OSK, and 1 appearances in 5 say he has earned the hearing.
The dugout5 Oct 2026
Nobody will confirm this and nothing else explains the last month of selections. A costly error buys a player a period of being second choice that is always longer than the error was.
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Steady
Match26 Sep 2026
2 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Oskar Pietuszewski will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Sepsi OSK escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski, 18, plays like he has been here for years — 7.99
A mark of 7.99 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 18-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Adnan Aganović yet — 8.23
At 39 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Andrei Vlad 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.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
The dugout28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Andrei Vlad
“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.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Marked 6.82 on 9 actions at both ends of the pitch. Midfielders like this get described as unspectacular by people who have never tried to play against one.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Dino Skorup beats them one at a time
Successful dribbles: 15. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
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Upbeat
Squad21 Sep 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Iglesias
15 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sepsi OSK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market21 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Market21 Sep 2026
The clubs have agreed terms, and what remains is formality: a medical, a photograph, a signature. Nobody at Sepsi OSK is pretending he will be back in the shirt.
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 23. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Oskar Pietuszewski 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.
Transfer targets21 Sep 2026
Sepsi OSK asked and CS Dinamo Bucharest said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
Squad21 Sep 2026
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Adnan Aganović 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 terraces21 Sep 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Pietuszewski has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Steady
Squad14 Sep 2026
22 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sepsi OSK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Match12 Sep 2026
3 goals to the good, and then a slow surrender of everything that had been earned. Mihai Bancu will not be the one blamed for it, but nobody at Sepsi OSK escapes the conversation that follows a collapse like this.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Age has not caught Adnan Aganović yet — 8.14
At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.14 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.
Market14 Sep 2026
The offer was not close and it was refused without much discussion. Whether the second one is refused as quickly is another matter.
Player ratings14 Sep 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There was always a defender in front of him and there was never a defender in front of him for long.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: Chindia Târgoviște keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Transfer targets14 Sep 2026
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.
Market14 Sep 2026
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Cosmin Cicaldau has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
Market14 Sep 2026
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Daniel Marin is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
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Steady
Squad7 Sep 2026
31 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sepsi OSK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Market7 Sep 2026
The last thing about a transfer that is still about the player is his signature on his own terms, and it is there. Sepsi OSK have lost him in all but the paperwork.
Market7 Sep 2026
“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 Sepsi OSK, and it is not being withdrawn.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
Window shuts: 8 in, 12 out at Sepsi OSK
The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 8 arrived, 12 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.
Boardroom7 Sep 2026
The number the board signed off was not enough. It has been asked again and raised its own offer to $561.8K — a club that wants Stiven Plaza enough to be asked twice.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
A medical, a signature, a shirt held up in front of a sponsor’s board. Sepsi OSK have done the hard part with Gijón, and the part that remains is the part supporters actually see.
Market7 Sep 2026
Everything was agreed until it was not, and Dani Iglesias reports back to Sepsi OSK with a summer to forget. Neither club is saying who walked away from the table.
Transfer targets7 Sep 2026
$520.0K on the table at Chindia Târgoviște. The manager wanted him, the board agreed a number, and the only voices still to be heard are the ones at the other club.
Market7 Sep 2026
Add another name to the list: CS Tunari have asked the question everybody in the game has been asking about Fábio Vianna. The answer from Sepsi OSK has not changed — yet.
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Steady
Squad31 Aug 2026
39 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Sepsi OSK lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.
Player ratings31 Aug 2026
At 38 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 8.06, and nobody on the pitch better.
Market31 Aug 2026
“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 ratings31 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 25. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
The clubs had agreed and the player had not. A snub, and a public one: CFR Cluj keep him, and the supporters here are left wondering what he had heard about the place.
Squad31 Aug 2026
500 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Market31 Aug 2026
Botosani pay $74.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets31 Aug 2026
Sepsi OSK asked and Levski said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.
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Upbeat
Player ratings24 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 43. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Dani Iglesias damages knee ligaments — 48 days out
The words a physio says slowly. 48 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.
Market24 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and Corvinul Hunedoara waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sepsi OSK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Market24 Aug 2026
Denis Haruţ 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 Sepsi OSK can pretend not to have heard.
Market24 Aug 2026
The bid was some way short and Sepsi OSK did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.
Squad24 Aug 2026
Words exchanged at Sepsi OSK
Andrei Vlad 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.
Market24 Aug 2026
CSM Slatina pay $440.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets24 Aug 2026
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.
Match22 Aug 2026
A 1‑0 win over CS Tunari, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.
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Steady
Squad17 Aug 2026
A knee injury of the worst kind for Dani Iglesias
55 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Sepsi OSK lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.
Market17 Aug 2026
Fee agreed, wages agreed, and CSM Slatina waiting with a shirt. Nobody at Sepsi OSK is pretending otherwise, and the supporters have stopped asking whether and started asking when.
Player ratings17 Aug 2026
Adnan Aganović, 38, rolls back the years — 7.96
There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 7.96 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.
Market17 Aug 2026
Sepsi OSK say no — this time
The offer from CS Afumați for Dani Iglesias 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 targets17 Aug 2026
Sepsi OSK offered $1.2M; Dinamo Bucharest said it was not close. The manager will be told the money is still there for the right player, which is what managers are told.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
Terms were offered and declined. Whether it was the wages, the role or the town, nobody at Panathinaikos is saying, and nobody at Sepsi OSK is enjoying the guessing.
Transfer targets17 Aug 2026
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.
Squad17 Aug 2026
Andrei Vlad and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
The terraces17 Aug 2026
There is a particular warmth a ground reserves for a 18-year-old it feels ownership of. Oskar Pietuszewski has it now, and everything he does for the rest of his time here will be measured against the goodwill he was handed for free.
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Crisis
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
The deal with Panathinaikos is done in every sense but the one that puts him on the pitch. Nothing goes wrong at this stage, except on the occasions when it does.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
Farul Constanța wanted more than $680.0K and the board would not go there. Walked away, for now, which in a transfer window means until somebody blinks.
Squad10 Aug 2026
Andrei Vlad 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț pay $460.0K, and the deal is done. The number reads well on a balance sheet; whether it reads well on the pitch is next season's question.
Transfer targets10 Aug 2026
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.
Market10 Aug 2026
The interest is real enough to have reached print. Sepsi OSK have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.
The dugout10 Aug 2026
Andrei Vlad 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.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Adrian Keseru has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
Market10 Aug 2026
There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Mihai Bancu has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.
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Uneasy
Player ratings3 Aug 2026
Successful dribbles: 39. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
An offer of $470.0K for Dan Sîrbu
Sepsi OSK have gone to Farul Constanța 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.
Squad3 Aug 2026
“The easiest signature of my career.” Adnan Aganović and Sepsi OSK agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
Not now, not at any price the club was prepared to say out loud. AZ have kept their man, and Sepsi OSK go back to a list with one name crossed off it.
Squad3 Aug 2026
It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Sepsi OSK this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.
Squad3 Aug 2026
100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.
Squad3 Aug 2026
Joonas Tamm retires from international football
“65 caps. I have loved every one, and it is somebody else’s turn.” At 34 he has stepped away from his country and is going nowhere at Sepsi OSK.
Transfer targets3 Aug 2026
A loan enquiry to Panathinaikos: cover, or a look at somebody the club cannot afford to buy yet. Either way the answer will come back inside the week.