Alex Chipciu “put sticks in his wheels” after seeing the transfer made by U Cluj: “What an “animal” he is!”

Lukic was brought by Craiova in the Romanian championship with high hopes, but he did not impress in blue and white. He scored only two goals and the Oltenians no longer kept him in the team. He stayed in the country and arrived at U Cluj in the summer of 2025, where he looked completely different.

• Under the command of Ioan Ovidiu Sabău, initially, and then Cristiano Bergodi, Lukic finished the 2025-2026 season as top scorer of the championship, with 18 successesand this summer he made the Bosnia and Herzegovina squad for the World Championship in the USA, Mexico and Canada;

Chipciu was reluctant when he saw that Lukic was coming to Cluj

A year away from the moment when Jovo Lukic signed the contract with U Cluj, the captain of the “red caps” admitted that he did not trust this move. Moreover, Chipciu even “put sticks in the wheels” of Lukic, after he went to coach Sabău to tell him that, in his opinion, Lukic will not help them. But everything changed 180 degrees.

“When he came in with us, it seemed to me that he didn't have confidence and I was talking to Mr. Sabau: “I don't think he will help us at all”. After I saw him in training and saw what an “animal” he is… I thought he was a very good player in training. When you played with Lukic, he was a disaster, he hit you, scored a lot of goals. He has great quality for the level of League 1″Alex Chipciu testified, a year away since Lukic is the Cluj player.

• In addition to the 18 goals scored in the domestic championship, Lukic managed two more, in the Romanian Cup and the Conference League preliminaries; 3 assists are added to these successes;

• It is quoted by the specialized website Transfermarkt at 2.2 million euros;

• He still has a contract with U Cluj until June 2029.