Earthquake at CFR Cluj! He can no longer stand the chaos at the club and is ready to sign with another Superliga team

After the resignation of president Cristi Balaj and sporting director Marius Bilașco, who has already signed with Rapid, another extremely important name from the club's organizational chart is ready to leave in the coming hours.

his name? Bogdan Mara, former midfielder and key man in terms of the transfers made by Cluj in recent years.

Bogdan Mara resigns from CFR Cluj!

The decision of Mara, champion of Romania with Unirea Urziceni as a player, was made more than a month ago, however, according to GSP.RO information, he would have wanted to finish the current season in Cluj.

It's just that some controversial decisions taken by the owner, by bringing Marian Copilu and his trusted man, Ioan Ivașcu, to the club, made him quit even now.

Recently, Mara held talks with several Superliga teams. Rapidly, Dinamo and FC Argeș were interested in his services, known in Romanian football as a man extremely involved in scouting and observing players from other championships.

There was some discussion, but that was it. I am honored and happy that other important leaders in Romanian football are thinking of me, it means that my work is seen. I have been at CFR for 9 years… I do not deny that there are discussions with other clubs!

Bogdan Mara, the official from CFR Cluj

Ioan Ivașcu changed his mind again: he is coming back from the summer

GSP.RO sources have revealed that Ioan Ivașcu, the club's former lawyer, who destroyed a team office five years ago, after the match with Steaua Roșie Belgrade, has recently wavered about returning to the club.

Ioan Ivascu

He was several times in the administrative headquarters of the team and occupied his own office, then announced that he was leaving and that he was not tempted to return. “Everything was just a game to see what waters they bathe in. From the summer he is one hundred percent the new employee of the club”revealed important people from the phenomenon.

The reason why Ivașcu is coming back, after in 2011 he even fought with the bodyguards of the boss Ioan Varga? People from the entourage of the “railway” club talk about “pressure on the owner from influential people with whom Varga is connected”, GSP sources claim.

The supporters don't want Ivașcu

The return of Ioan Ivașcu is not seen with good eyes at all. The team's supporters contested his return to the club, and at the match won against the city rival, Cluj University, they displayed a banner against him: “Ivascu, leave us!”.

According to GSP.RO information, Ioan Ivașcu is already in contact with people from the Cluj administration, but he does not yet have an official position in the club. “He is more of Nelu Varga's man, a sort of adviser,” the revelations sound.

The banner against Ioan Ivașcu in the match with U Cluj

With the signing of the contract, from the summer, Ivașcu will fully enter his role and will have an important say in the club. Moreover, there is strong pressure for him to be the liaison between the LPF and the FRF, and not the president Iuliu Mureșan.

Moreover, Ivașcu's name also appears in a possible file opened by the Department of Integrity and Anti-Fraud within the FRF. The lawyer denied the information.

He fired him and laughed at him, now he hires him

With the return of Ioan Ivașcu to the club, the return of Marian Copilu is also being prepared, another character who worked with Varga in the past, but who was put on hold in 2021, when Marius Șumudica was dismissed from the team. After the general beating from the match with Red Star.

Since then, Copilu has also been active at Craiova University and Petrolul, each time being removed from the management of the clubs.

The main reason why Copilu was kicked out from Gruia was the very large contracts of some CFR players. For example, former goalkeeper Giedrius Arlauskis earns 85,000 euros per month.

The information was revealed even by the boss Ioan Varga, who was mocking Copilu for the poor results he had after leaving CFR, at the teams he was active in.

Sentenced to two years and six months in prison for embezzlement

The name of Marian Copilu, former and future official of CFR Cluj, appeared several times in a Recorder material about Marcel Vela, former Minister of the Interior of Romania.

Arlauskis, Marian Copilu and Mirel Rădoi/ photo Imago Images

During the time when Vela was the mayor of Caransebeș, he declared Copilu, at that time the representative of the Copisa construction company, an honorary citizen. The company, with headquarters in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat (Spain), carried out a project worth 30 million euros for the belt of the municipality of Caraș-Severin.

“Four years later, this Marian Copilu is sentenced to two years and six months in prison for embezzling a company. The ring road project is not a success either. After it was put into use, the belt was closed several times as a result of the problems that arose at a viaduct”, notes the Recorder.

A friend of MM Stoica, he slept with the FCSB trophy at home

Before becoming the head of the CFR, Marian Copilu was in the entourage of Unirii Urziceni during the period when the “wolves” won the championship and performed in the Champions League groups. He was also close to Mihai Stoica and Dan Petrescu and traveled with the team on European trips.

Mihai Stoica once posted on Facebook a photo in which he appeared with Marian Copilu.

The rapprochement of Marian de Urziceni had occurred precisely in the context of friendship with MM. Later, in 2013, Stoica had already returned to FCSB and his team became champions. The kid took home the trophy. Mihai and Marian were close throughout that period and all the time, including in activities that were not related to their shared passion for football.

Mihai Stoica once posted on Facebook a photo in which he appeared with Marian Copilu. They were fishing and Marcel Vela, at that time mayor of Caransebeș, had accompanied them. Vela, who appears in the picture bragging about his pike catch, became Minister of the Interior last year, after also being a senator.