page_title: Adrian Mutu
section_title: Fiorentina
hierarchical_section_title: Adrian Mutu / Club career / Fiorentina
caption_attribution_description: ACF Fiorentina player, Adrian Mutu
context_page_description: Adrian Mutu is a Romanian football coach and former player who is currently the coach of the Romania national under-21 team. During his playing career, he was deployed as an attacking midfielder or a forward.
  Mutu started his career playing two years for Argeș Pitești and half a season for Dinamo București, before joining Internazionale in Italy midway through the 1999–2000 Serie A. After only ten games with the Nerazzurri, he left for Hellas Verona and then Parma, for which he scored 39 goals in the next three years. His excellent form brought him a €22.5 million transfer to Chelsea. Following a failed drug test, he was released and returned to Serie A to join Juventus. After the 2006 Italian football scandal and the relegation of Juventus to Serie B, Mutu decided to join Fiorentina, where he played consistently for the next five years. He then had a season at Cesena and French club Ajaccio before returning to his native country with Petrolul Ploiești in 2014. After two more brief spells with Pune City and ASA Târgu Mureș, Mutu retired from professional football in 2016.
context_section_description: On 8 July 2006, Fiorentina announced that they had signed Mutu for €8 million.
  In July 2008, A.S. Roma made a reported €18 to 20 million offer to sign him outright, but Mutu hinted that he may remain in Florence and eventually signed a new contract reported last to 2012.
  On 29 January 2010, it was reported that Mutu failed a doping test after a Coppa Italia match against Lazio match nine days earlier, in which he scored twice in to help Fiorentina win 3–2. The INOC was requested to hand Mutu a one-year ban by the Italian anti-doping prosecutor. He eventually received a nine-month ban on 19 April, which was later reduced to six months and ended on 29 October. After the ban finished, Mutu was suspended by the club due to breach of contract (AWOL) on 7 January 2011. After such events, Mutu publicly apologised to the club and parted company with his agent Victor Becali; on 3 February 2011 Fiorentina announced the player was reinstated into the first team with immediate effect.
caption: Mutu with Fiorentina during their 2007–08 season.
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