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7 reasons why the coach chosen by Nelu Varga at CFR Cluj is a ridiculous move: he left with scandal!

Article by Alexandru Barbu – published on Friday, August 22, 2025, 13:38 / Updated on Friday, August 22, 2025 1:45

Dan Petrescu announced his resignation Thursday nightafter the disastrous failure in Sweden, score 2-7 with Hacken in the Tour of the Conference League play-off.

And Nelu Varga would have already made the decision to bring back to the Italian Andrea Mandorini.

For mandorlini would be the third term at CFR Cluj, a team he has prepared in 2009-2010 and 2023-2024.

7 reasons why Andrea Mandorlini's choice is absurd this time

1. He is unemployed from January 2024, since Varga at Demis. So it has been a year and a half without mandorini convincing another club to hire it.

2. The previous mandate at CFR was weak. The most recently discharged in Gruia meant only 27 matches, during which time he missed the qualification in the Conference League groups and was expelled after a surprising failure in Botosani, 0-1.

3. removed from the circuit. At 65, Mandorlini is far from the height of the coach's career. From 2015 until now, that is, within a decade, Andrea has worked only 3 and a half years, the rest of the time being free of contract.

4. April 9, 2017 is the date of the last match that Mandorini led as a technician in the first step in the peninsula, trained Genoa and was definitely lost with Udinese, 0-3.

What?! »7 reasons why the coach chosen by Nelu Varga at CFR Cluj is a ridiculous move: he left with scandal!

Andrea Mandorlini

5. Actually, series technician D. With the exception of the CFR, the last team that Mandorlini had been called is called Mantova. With which he dropped in the 4th Italian League!

6. The trophies won them 15 years ago. All at CFR Cluj: Title, Cup and Super Cup.

7. Incompatible with the CFR lot? Two seasons, the Italian most often used modules 3-5-2 and 4-3-1-2, in which there are no classic strips, 7 in number in the current composition of Cluj: Deac, Biliboc, Nkololo, Cordea, Sfaiț, Kamara, Korenica. With the first, there was a conflict, because Mandorlini did not use the team's veteran. “Lack of respect and humility!”, At that time Ioan Deac, the father of the footballer at that time.

What Dan Petrescu told after 2-7 with Hacken:

I am ashamed of the result. This was my last match. I had planned to retire after the return match, but I am withdrawing now. I am ashamed of the result and, as a coach, I have to take responsibility.

In the 25 years since I am a coach, my teams have never received seven goals. Not even five. It's a terrible day for me and the club.

I am sorry for the fans, for the club, for the whole of Romania. But this is the truth today

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