Ianis Hagi, Nicolas Popescu, Dictatorship of the Internet

Article by Alexandru Barbu – published on Thursday, September 04, 2025, 16:17 / Updated Thursday, September 04, 2025 4:29 pm
Ianis is not automatically a missed footballer just because he didn't get as big as his father. Nicolas – Gică Popescu comparisons are absurd and useless, launched in order to offend people we don't like. Who is wrong, who is right?
The end of the Mercato has in the foreground the boys of two of the greatest footballers, athletes in the history of Romania: Ianis Hagi and Nicolas Popescu. The first left from Rangers and signed in Turkeythe second just broke up with the Lighthouse to be presented by Steaua.
Cold, rationally, both regress and add a canister to the fuel of permanently fierce contestants. Those who open the internet to swear, then inform.

Ianis Hagi, presented at Alanyaspor
Hagi will now play in Alanyaspor, a mediocre team from Turkey. People's reactions?
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“He is not a footballer, he is a wage hunter. It took me something to figure out …”
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“10Mmic signed with Roberto walls!”
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“Never in the history of world football have been written so many articles about a mediocre player”
Let's make the balance of Ianis without Hagi, without the “dictatorship” of the Internet
Ianis will turn 27 soon. The reality is that he did not confirm in Fiorentina, neither Genk nor Alaves. In Rangers he alternated the goals and assists with dead periods. He took a title with the Scots, went to the club he will receive inheritance and was decisive at the Romanian national, with Germany, with Israel, with Slovakia. It is the superficial but clean summary of a career between banal and charming.
But Hagi Jr is not challenged as he gave Chix abroad. He is challenged because he is the boy of Gică Hagi. The collision of expectations – factual, the mania of opposing the aristocracy.
What he writes in the bulletin also brought benefits to Ianis, holder-capitan-adolescent in Liga 1, asked by his father to national. But at and burdened. “Vochin will stand in line Take autographs from Ianis! It brings with the profile of Zidane ”, that did not say chibes from the comments and from the stadiums. This announced the father who saw his best son than he actually was.
Let us be cautious, reasonable and weigh the course of Ianis Hagi with balance and arguments, as far as revenge and incoherence. The valuable analyzes are not based on rebellion.
Victims and profiteers simultaneously
The son of the former captain in Barcelona is even warmer bread for the continuous revolted public. Yes, at 22, Nicolas seems to find clubs exclusively based on his father's relationships. At the Lighthouse he did not rise, he did not confirm at Voluntari, now he reaches the 2nd League, at Steaua.

Nicolas Popescu, official at Steaua
But Popescu's route is not unique. There are hundreds of careers. But he first enters your feed because of the name.
Andrei Nicolescu, Dinamo's president, says “We are under the “dictatorship” of this online -free onlinethat is, of people who, under the protection of anonymity, launch theories, conspiracies, all kinds of accusations. ”
It's right. The descendants of Hagi and Popescu are often the victims of the “dictatorship” from online. But also the beneficiaries of a system in which their parents enjoyed high positions. In the middle are those attentive to the goals of Ianis and the duels won by Nicolas. They are right.




