Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Tuesday, 13 January 2026, 10:41 / Updated on Tuesday, 13 January 2026 10:42
Dinamo transfers the youngster Ianis Târbă (19 years old), the right midfielder from the Celta Vigo academy. The coach of the Spaniards, Fredi Alvarez, confirmed the move, and the footballer would arrive in Romania in “the next hours or days”.
Spanish journalists announced the interest of the “dogs” in Târba the other day, and the footballer would become the #2 transfer, after that of the left defender Valentin Țicu (25 years old).
Dinamo will not pay any money for this transfer, and the footballer is seen as a solution for the future, as happened in the case of other Romanian footballers raised abroad and transferred by Kopic's team, such as Adrian Caragea, Andrei Mărginean or Luca Bărbulescu.
Ianis Târbă is to sign with Dinamo: “I understand that the transfer will be completed”
Bustleborn in Mollerussa, has Spanish and Romanian citizenship and has only played in Spain at youth level. This was including in “La Masia”, the famous academy of Barcelona.
In 2022, Târbă left Barcelona and arrived at Celta Vigo, performing at junior level for the Galician team. Now, he would come to Dinamo, claims his coach.
“On Friday, I was told that there was a possibility that he could return to his country of origin. We try to avoid situations where he can get injured.
I understand it will be completed in the next few days or hours. It's not my job to say under what conditions he will leave,” said Fredi Alvarez, coach of Celta Vigo's youth team, according to eldesmarque.com.
However, Celta keeps an important percentage of a future sale of the 19-year-old winger, the Spanish journalists also note. The player was not included in the squad for the match played by Celta on Sunday.
Ianis Tarbă, in the U19 national team jersey, at EURO 2025/ PHOTO: Instagram @Ianis Tarba
The footballer played only 124 minutes this season, in three matches. He played 700 minutes for the club's second team in the 2022–23 season. The following season, he scored 13 goals in 1,507 minutes.
The female can evolve both extreme left and extreme right. The player born in Spain has 11 matches and two goals for the Romanian U19 national team.
Ianis Târbă was part of the Romanian U19 national team that reached the semifinals of EURO 2025.
50,000 eurosit's Ianis Târbă's share, according to Transfermarkt
