In June 2010 he was transferred to Liga I champions CFR Cluj for €250,000.. He played only six months in Romania, in January 2011 being sold back in Italy, to Serie B club Atalanta for €385,000. However he was transferred to Serie B club Hellas Verona F.C. for free from the 2011 Serie B champion on 31 August 2011, the last day of Italian transfer window, after a nil game in 2011–12 Serie A. At Verona he re-joined the former Cluj coach, Italian Andrea Mandorlini. On 3 September 2012 the last day of Romanian transfer window, he returned to Cluj for undisclosed fee.