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CFR Cluj is preparing intensively to debut in the groups of the new season of the Europa League, and Dan Petrescu hopes to welcome two more players from the club’s board.
CFR Cluj is the only representative from Romania remaining in competition in the current European Cup season. The University of Craiova was the first team from League I to leave the Europa League preliminaries, followed by the Oltenians by FC Botoşani. The Moldovans were eliminated by Shkendija, although they played in their own field, and they lost a historic duel of the club with the English of Tottenham.
Immediately after, in the third preliminary round of the Europa League, crushed by the numerous cases of coronavirus in the group, FCSB lined up a team full of juniors in the duel with Slovan Liberec, but could not produce the big surprise. It was eliminated, making CFR Cluj the only team from League I to qualify for the European Cup groups.
Total SHOCK at CFR Cluj. Dan Petrescu starts the race for supremacy and brings in two more players
After the dramatic defeat suffered in the tiebreakers, in the Champions League preliminaries, in the match with Dinamo Zagreb, the Transylvanians eliminated two teams from northern Europe, Djurgården and KuPS Kuopio, and marked the classification in the groups of the Europa League.
In fact, Dan Petrescu set his sights on two players from the Finnish group that CFR Cluj defeated 3-1 in the competition’s play-off. According to ziare.com, the Romanian champion has already started negotiations for Nana Boateng and Usman Sale. Nana Boateng, 26, raised in the Manchester City academy, is playing as a central midfielder, where Dan Petrescu is looking for a replacement for Mihai Bordeianu, who left for Saudi Arabia last week in Al Qadisiyah.
Nana Boateng has also evolved in her career, including in MLS in Colorado, and since the beginning of this year she has played for KuPS. Usman Sale is a 25-year-old Nigerian player who plays as a right back. Sale came to Europe from his home country in 2016, when it was acquired by Viking of Norway, and in January it also joined the Finnish project KuPS.
Now, the referees of the Romanian champion are very close to applauding with the Finns, but if the two sides reach a common denominator, the two African midfielders will be able to reach the CFR only in the winter of this year, when a new stage of transfers.
- 200 thousand euros is the market share of Usman Sale, according to the specialized site transfermarkt.com
- Nana Boateng is worth 300 thousand euros on the same site
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