Article by Adrian Duţă – Published Saturday, January 10, 2026, 08:24 / Updated Saturday, January 10, 2026 08:32
Andrei Nicolescu, the president of Dinamo, took aim at those from Oțelul, after the loan of Adrian Caragea (20 years old, extreme left) to the Galața team fell through.
According to the Dynamo official, Oțelul insisted on the loan of the extreme left winger, but withdrew at the very last moment. Nicolescu accuses that this influenced the plan in the mercato at Dinamo.
Finally, Caragea remained under the command of Zeljko Kopic in the training camp in Antalya. The U21 player has gone 11 games this season in the Superliga without scoring or providing an assist. He has been with Dinamo since 2024, when he was taken for free after breaking up with Sassuolo.
Andrei Nicolescu: “After they begged us for two months, they gave back, with some silly explanations”
“We entered into a potential collaboration with a Superliga club, it's not nice and I wouldn't want to say it, but they messed us up a lot.
After asking us for two months to do loan with option and so on, on the last day when we wanted to do it, they backed out, with some silly explanations. It is not “professional” what is happening.
A League 1 club needed an Under… Somehow they convinced us that we could offer a player to play there. (no – Is it Caragea la Oțelul?) Yes. And that confused us about what moves we want to make.
It closed. I'm upset with the way it happened, I spent a month in negotiations, with coaches on the phone. The manner is not correct”, stated Andrei Nicolescu, according to digisport.ro.
So far, Dinamo has transferred Liam Eissat (18 years old, winger), Lisav Eissat's brother, and Valentin Țicu (25 years old, left defender).
