Article by George Nistor – published Tuesday, August 26, 2025, 22:01 / Updated Tuesday, August 26, 2025 22:01
CFR Cluj has opened the negotiations with the Nigerian striker Simy Nwankwo, now 33 years old, free of contract from the end of the previous season.
In case Louis Munteanu will catch the transfer abroad, CFR Cluj would not have long been discovered. The band from Gruia has already identified the eventual replacement of Munteanu and held the first discussions with his camp.
It's about Nigerian Simy Nwankwo, an striker who In the height of his career, in the summer of 2021, he was evaluated at 8 million euros!
CFR Cluj found a replacement to Louis Munteanu: Simy Nwankwo, 116 -matches in Serie A matches
Simy started his career in Portimonense, in Portugal, and in 2016 he made the passage to Italy, bought by Crotone for 850,000 euros. There recorded the best career statistics: 66 goals in 159 matches.
Reference is the 2020/2021 season with 20 goals in the 38 stages in the Serie A. Then he managed “double” against Napoli, Lazio, Parma and Turin, she also pointed out in the matches with Juventus and Atalanta.
In the summer of 2022, Salernitana paid 4 million euros to transfer it, but Simy could not repeat the yield he had in Crotone.
For I Granata he scored only 10 times in 64 parties, being borrowed in the first half of 2022 at Parma, and in season 2022/2023 at Benevento. This summer, the contract with Salernitana reached the end.
34 goalsSimy scored at Serie A level, in a total of 116 matches
Simy also boasts 4 appearances at the first representative of Nigeria, two of them at the 2018 World Cup. But he played only a few minutes, being introduced at the end of the group matches with Croatia (0-2) and Argentina (1-2).
The Nigerian striker is under contract with M-Soccermanagement, the business company that represents the Romanians Virgil Ghiță and Denis Drăguș.
