“The goalkeeper who comes from the Carpathians” “How the Spaniards describe the transfer of Ionuț Radu and what a problem he would have in Celta!

Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Wednesday, June 11, 2025, 10:41 / Updated Wednesday, June 11, 2025 10:44
Andrei Ionuț Radu It has a beautiful presentation in the newspapers that appear in Galicia. “Celta's new footballer Vigo was brought to give stability of the portions. The Romanian is the ideal candidate for the desired quality jump, for the high technical level and its very good developments from Venezia“, Writes Faro de Vigo.
Under the title “The goalkeeper who comes from the Carpathians”, the quoted daily makes a portrait of the 28 -year -old goalkeeper, brought for free after his separation from Venezia.

The Spaniards reveal that “the Romanian was meticulously watched, for several months and a lot of matches, becoming the ideal candidate to replace the Vicente Guita.”
Radu is the first Romanian player in the property of Celta Vigo
The same Vigo Faro notes that Celta decided to transfer an unknown goalkeeper for La Liga, but with experience in three of Europe's top championships and much of her career in Italy.

Ionuț Radu, presenting the T -shirt of Celta Vigo, near the president of the club, Maria Mourio / Photo: X Celta Vigo
Radu must offer “stability of the gates of the Vigo team, but also a continuity for himself, which he has not had in the last seasons.
The Romanian was the ideal candidate for the desired quality jump, for the high technical level and its very good evolutions from Venice of 2025, even if the team has relegated to Serie B, and for the opportunity to prove their qualities and to be a constant holder. ”
Had three candles from Barcelona, Bilbao and Mallorca
The newspaper that appears in Vigo even revealed that Ionuț Radu won the casting that included three names, all the goalkeepers from La Liga: Inaki Pena (26 years old), the third variant at FC Barcelona, Julen Agirrezabala (24, Athletic Bilbao) and Leo Roman (24, Mallorca).

Ionuț Radu, when he signed with Celta Vigo
“Celta decided to rely on a goalkeeper at a zero cost from central and eastern Europe, from a Mercato who rarely provided players in the Vigo team: in the centennial history of the club, another Romanian, two Hungarians, three Bulgarians and a Slovak came, only a few having a remarkable efficiency.”
Of the names quoted stands Stanislav Lobotka (arrived in Naples), “a big player and a very profitable transfer”, and Lubo Penev. “Radu is the first Romanian to be owned by Celta, because the other, Gabriel Tamas, was borrowed from Spartak Moscow, in the team's self -destruction season, last time in Segunda Division.”
The former inter-player of Inter is the tenth foreign goalkeeper in the history of the club and only the second in the east of the continent, after the Hungarian Gyula Alberty, ex-real Madrid, who debuted at Celta during the Civil War in Spain.
The nine foreigners who defended the team's shops in Vigo were four nationalities, but only eight began to debut: the Frenchman Richard Dutruel, the Brazilian Diego Alves and the Argentinians Agustin Marchesin, Matias Dituro, Pablo Caballero, Carlos Phenoy, Luis Agrre and Luis Lopez.

Ionuț Radu, along with agent Federico Pastorello / Photo: GSP.ro
“The Giraldez coach asks Radu a precise foot game”
The other local daily, at Voz de Galicia, warns Radu on the fact that coach Claudio Giralez “It gives an importance to the construction from the back and needs a goalkeeper with a good foot and precise passes”.
And he also reminds of the jerk committed by the Romanian goalkeeper in the famous match in Bologna, because of that failure, intermingling the title!
The mentioned newspaper brings out, even in the title of the text dedicated to the first acquisition of Celte in this Mercato, the drama lived by Radu by losing his sister, who has extinguished at just 9 years old “with the Eme's T -shirt”.
And he mentions the moment he moved from the Euro U21 in 2019 and the story match with England (4-2), in which the captain of the national youth has removed that shirt with the face of Ema.