Reinforcements from Portugal! The team from Superliga takes a midfielder who made his junior at Sporting and Benfica
Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Friday, June 27, 2025, 21:13 / updated on Friday, June 27, 2025:18
Hermannstadt acquires Penafiel's midfielder, Diogo Batista. The Sports Gazette has all the details of the transfer.
Sibiu are about to “close” the first impact transfer of this summer. This is the Portuguese midfielder Diogo Batista, whom I bring from the second Portuguese League, from Penafiel.
Batista's contract with his current club expires on July 1 and comes to Hermannstadt as a free player. From the information of the Sports Gazette, the Transylvanians offered him a 3-year contract and a salary of 8,000 euros a month.
Diogo Batista has played so far only in Portugal. He started at Sporting and went on to Benfica!
He started football at Sporting's juniors and has so far evolved at Portuguese, Setubal, Benfica, Aves and Estoril clubs, before reaching Penafiel, in 2022. Batista was a basic player at his last club. Last season checked 33 appearances in the second Portuguese League (31 matches) and Portugal Cup (2 matches).
His balance sheet: 3 goals, all in the championship, and 4 decisive passes (3 in the championship, one in the cup). In the 3 years spent at Penafiel, he has collected 91 matches, 4 goals and 8 assists. He can play central midfielder, advanced, behind the “tip”, or even as a “lock”.
Diogo Batista will play on the post of Alesandro Murgia, who went to U Cluj
The handkerchief will fill in Marius Măldărășanu's gear, the goal appeared by leaving the Italian Alessandro Murgia at U Cluj and is expected to reach the next few hours in the cantonment of the team from Bolu, Turkey.
Hermannstadt has so far provided the services of three players. This is Patrick Vuc (SGV Freiburg), Dragoș Albu (FC Buzău) and Luca Stancu (Câmpulung Muscel). At the departures, outside Murgia, there is Robert Popescu, who signed with FC Voluntari.
The club's management will discuss with Ianis Stoica upon his return from leave
The transfer of Ianis Stoica, for whom the club requests “at least 1.5 million euros”, is “waiting. Dinamo has given up on it, considering it too expensive, but the offers from abroad are to evaluate.
The leadership of the Sibiu is waiting for him to return from leave on Monday, and he will discuss the next steps to take. The same is true of the Portuguese Tiago Goncalves, whose transfer to Slovan Bratislava has not been materialized yet.
