Dan Petrescu brought his goalkeeper from the series! »He gave up the last year of contract to sign with CFR Cluj
Article by Daniel Scorpie – published Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 19:34 / Updated Wednesday, 02 July 2025 19:36
Alessandro Micai It's the new goalkeeper of CFR Cluj. The 1.86 m Italian, who will turn 32 over three weeks, signed a contract until 2028 with the Gruia team. The goalkeeper without a game played in series comes free, after terminating his agreement (valid for another season) with Cosnza, who relegated from Serie B!
Dan Petrescu will benefit from a goalkeeper with experience in Il Calcio, the coach of the railways not having in the lot as reserves for the Otto Hindich holder except Rareș (24 years) and Mihai Pânzaru (20). Micai was the number 1 to the Calabreza team last season: 38 matches played, 55 goals received and 7 with the untouched gate.
CFR Cluj takes the third goalkeeper in Italy, after Sava and Scuffet!
The transfer of Alesandro Micai is the second of an Italian goalkeeper at CFR Cluj. Simone Scuffet was brought, also to the zero parameter, from Cyprus from Apoel Nicosia. After a single season, in which he played in 49 games, raising 46 goals, Scuffet was sold for 2 million euros in Cagliari.
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The Sardon team, to whom he was a colleague with Răzvan Marin, borrowed for six months this year in Naples, with whom he won Logdetto, then returned to Cagliari.
Micai is the third goalkeeper that is brought by CFR Cluj from Italy. Răzvan Sava came in January 2022 from Turin for only 250,000 euros. At the Transylvanian band remained until last summer, when he moved again to Serie A.
Simone Scuffet, the goalkeeper from CFR Cluj, left two years ago at Cagliari / Photo: Imago Images
Udinese bought it with an amount ten times higher than the money invested plus the bonuses that could reach 1-1.5 million euros. Sava ticked 59 presence at CFR Cluj, with 63 goals received in all competitions.
Alessandro Micai worked four months with Devis Mangia at Bari!
Micai was in Cosnza not only the basic man, but also the second best paid in the team that finished in the 20th place in 20 (30 points) and dropped in series C! He did not agree to stay in the third league, because his salary of 450,000 euros annually could not be borne at that level by Calabians!
The Italian goalkeeper who paraphrased the commitment on three seasons with CFR Cluj has no match in Serie A, being only nine times in Salernitana in season 2022-2023, fixed in the period before the Juventus loan of Radu Drăgușin.
Alessandro Micai (Cosenza), in a match with Bari (1-0) last two months in the B / PHOTO series: IMAGO
Alessandro Micai has 331 matches and 422 goals received as a goalkeeper at Como, Sudtirol, Bari, Regan, Salernitana and Cosnza. The Italian worked in Bari four months in 2014 with Devis Mangia, the coach expelled from Craiova University (April 2019) and from the national of Malta (in September 2022) due to sexual tension scandals.
