CFR Cluj does not give up! Ioan Varga comes from Africa to convince Pancu: all the behind-the-scenes details

With the 3rd place secured, which leads to the Conference League preliminaries, CFR Cluj still does not know with which coach it will start the next season. This is because, although his contract was automatically extended for another two years, Daniel Pancu does not know if he will continue in Gruia. He is wanted by Rapid, but also by other teams from abroad.

Ioan Varga comes to convince Daniel Pancu

CFR Cluj will play on Friday (20:30) with FC Arges, in the last stage of this season, and after that there will be a wider discussion between Daniel Pancu and the club management, in which the owner Ioan Varga will also participate. He comes specially from Africa to talk to the coach who took over the people of Cluj in November, when they were in the area of ​​relegating places.

According to GSP.ro information, Ioan Varga still hopes to convince Daniel Pancu to stay and will try to convince him that next season the team will not have financial problems or salary delays, these being two of the conditions requested by Pancu. Plus strengthening the team during the competitive break.

“Varga knows that Pancu will be hard to convince, but he still wants to make an attempt. In the last days, Iuliu Muresan and Marian Copilu discussed with Pancu, but no decision has been made yet”GSP sources explain.

27 matcheshas Pancu at CFR Cluj, in all competitions. He has 17 wins, 6 draws and 4 losses

Edi Iordănescu, the first solution if Pancu refuses

CFR Cluj has also prepared plan B. The bosses want the team not to be without a coach for a long time, because the 2026-2027 season starts quickly. And they want the future technician, if Pancu refuses to stay, to have as much time as possible to prepare the team.

And in the last period they groped the field for a return of Edi Iordănescu. The coach is free at the moment, and the management of Cluj asked him if he would be willing to accept an offer. The former selector would prefer a team from abroad, but CFR Cluj, through Marian Copilu, hopes to make him agree to take over the Transylvanian team.

• Edi Iordănescu has been out of contract since the end of October, when he left Legia Warsaw, after three months. The adventure in Poland was his first after the mandate of the selector (January 2022 – July 2024).

• Throughout his career, Iordănescu had two mandates at CFR Cluj. One was in 2018, when he lasted only one month (June – July), leaving after three matches, one of which was the Romanian Supercup, which he won. Iordănescu also coached in Gruia between December 2020 and June 2021, winning the championship and the Cup. Afterwards, he decided to leave.