Virgil Ghiță, sold by Krakow for one million euros »on the footsteps of Marcel Răducanu and Gică Popescu
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published on Thursday, June 26, 2025 7:36 / Updated Thursday, June 26, 2025 7:51
Virgil Ghiță (27 years old) will leave Polish football after 40 months. Krakow sells him in Germany and the central defender will play in 2. Bundesliga at Hannover 96. The “tricolor” used for 17 minutes in the match with Cyprus (2-0) of the preliminaries CM 2026 will leave for one million euros, with 200,000 less than the money paid in February 2022.
The former captain of Gică Hagi at Lighthouse will end his adventure in Poland, after 108 matches, in which he scored 12 goals and offered 3 decisive passes.
The club on the coast had transferred 1.2 million euros to the international who debuted at the national autumn, 11 minutes with Liechtensein (2-0), being used by Mirel Rădoi instead of his place Ionuț Nedelcearu.
Krakow takes 1 million euros for Virgil Ghiță. The Romanian had a contract for a year
The 27 -year -old stop will bring about the Polish team about one million dollars, according to information published by the journalist Mateusz Janiak from Przeglad Sortowy, practically half of his market share on Transfermarkt.
Virgil Ghiță / PHOTO: Imago Images
Virgil Ghiță accepted the offer from Germany from Hannover 96 and is about to sign a contract by June 2027 as he wrote andfanatik.roand be scheduled at the medical visit this weekend.
The footballer, whom the brand placed in the third place in 2021 in the top of the most promising U23 defendants in Europe, over Josko Gvardiol (Manchester City), Jules Kounda or Ronald Araujo (Barcelona), dreamed of a move to Spain, but the tattoo in the past have not materialized.
There were some discussions, but not enough serious. Through Spain some contacts were carried out. Not to be understood that I am disappointed in Krakow, where I have become the most expensive transfer in history. On the contrary, I repeat, I feel very good, but maybe a time when you have to take it on another road
Virgil GhițăStopper Krakow, in the interview in the Sports Gazette of September 2021
Had 31 matches, 4 goals and 3 assists last season
Thus, the player, which Mircea Lucescu introduced in place of Andrei Burcă in the 73rd minute of the match against Cyprus (2-0), will evolve into the German second league. Hannover finished 2. Bundesliga in 9th place, seven points of play-off.
Virgil Ghiță to Krakow / Photo: Imago
“The Romanian defender was one of the basic people of Krakow last season. Virgil Ghiță played a total of 31 matches, scoring 4 goals and offering 3 decisive passes.
He did well in everything about defensive, as confirmed by the good grades he received for the evolutions in Ekstraklasa ”, writes pillkanozna.pl.
Virgil Ghiță will become the third Romanian in Hannover's history 96. His predecessors are illustrious names for “tricolors”. It is about Marcel Răducanu, who only stayed there for a month, after running out of the country in 1981, then being legitimized by Dortmund (he paid the equivalent of 275,000 euros).
The second was Gică Popescu. “Baciul” reached the end of his career in Germany, in 2003, and caught, after the separation of Dinamo, 14 matches, scoring a goal to the team then in 1. Bundesliga.
