Romanian football has along the years
produced many valuable footballers for whom international football sides have
paid significant sums of money. In January Radu Dragusin has become the most
expensive Romanian footballer so far.
Dragusin has left Italian side Genoa to
sign up for six years with English side Tottenham Hotspur. The sum paid accounts
for 30 million Euros, the highest for a Romanian footballer up to now.
This international defender has left Genoa after 62 matches in Serie A, Serie B as well as
in Italy’s Football Cup but he has never concealed his admiration for British
Premiership, one of the world’s most powerful and valuable football tournaments.
The aforementioned sign-up
ends the negotiations which involved several famous clubs in Europe, including Newcastle
of Britain, Napoli and AC Milan of Italy as well as Bayern Munich of Germany.
Born in Bucharest, the centre-back spent his first football years at the local
sides Sportul Studentesc and Regal Sports Bucharest before his transfer to
Italian side Juventus in 2018 at the age of only 16. At Juventus Radu quickly
advanced to become at the age of 17 part of the Under-23 lineup playing in the Serie
C. The Romanian made his professional and European debut in December 2020 as a
substitute player in the match Juventus won 3-0 against Dynamo Kyiv in the UEFA
Champions League.
He made his debut in
Serie A shortly after that match. He was later lent to Sampdoria before the
2021-2022 football season, where he played 15 matches before signing up with US
Salernitana 1919 at the beginning of 2022, which he helped to avoid demotion
During the 2022-2023 season, Drăgușin was lent to Genoa, which was playing in the
second league at that time, and eventually hired him
Radu Dragusin was
first summoned to Romania’s national eleven in March 2022 when he played in a
friendly against Greece. He has already played for the Romanian national
football side in 13 games. Dragusin’s transfer to Tottenham is another record,
after those scored by Adrian Mutu, who was hired by British side Chelsea for 19
million Euros and Cristi Chivu who played for Ajax Amsterdam and was hired by
AS Rome for 18 million Euros.
Another major transfer was that of
Romanian striker Dennis Man from FCSB to Italian side Parma in 2021 for 13
million Euros who thus became the most expensive Romanian footballer to join a
foreign club directly from Romania’s first football league.
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