Article by Tudor Belivacă – Published Monday, November 24, 2025, 10:11 / Updated Monday, November 24, 2025 10:23
George Ciorceri, the de facto coach of CFR Cluj, announced in the press conference after CFR Cluj – Rapid 3-0, from stage #17 of the Superliga, that the Frenchman Kurt Zouma was absent from the squad because he has an injury.
Arriving with great fanfare at CFR Cluj and known for frequent injuries, it seems that the Frenchman cannot get into the physical shape to perform. “Zouma has a problem, he is injured. He has some medical problems. Because of this, he was not in the team,” announced George Ciorceri.
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The player with an impressive resume before coming to Gruia has caught very few minutes since his arrival in Romania.
In the match in which he debuted in the Super League, Petrolul – UTA Arad 1-1 in stage #10, he played 11 minutes and received a yellow card. He played 85 minutes in the failure of CFR on the field of Petrolul Ploiești and received another yellow card. The only game in which he ticked off 90 minutes was the Romanian Cup match with CSM Slatina, a second-tier team, score 4-0.
The last game in which he got minutes for CFR Cluj was the match against Dinamo in stage #15. The French came on in the 78th minute instead of Korenica at the score of 1-0 for the formation from Gruia. With Zouma in the line of defenders, Dinamo managed to reverse the result in 2 minutes at the end of the game.
A total of 197 minutes for Kurt Zouma, considered by many voices in football to be the hit of the summer in the mercato.
Kurt Zouma arrived this summer at CFR Cluj as a player free of contract and receives a monthly salary of 50,000 euros. It is quoted by specialized websites at 8 million euros. The Frenchman has an impressive CV: the Champions League with Chelsea, two Premier League titles with Chelsea and a Conference League triumph with West Ham. Before CFR Cluj he played at Al-Orobah, where he was loaned by the Englishmen from West Ham.
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