FC Rapid owner Dan Sucu has confirmed they have a significant buy option in Catalin Cirjan’s loan deal, but it doesn’t currently seem likely they’ll activate it.

Arsenal 20-year-old Catalin Cirjan completed a loan move to FC Rapid 1923 over the summer, with the two clubs agreeing on an option to buy in the deal.

Rapid owner Dan Sucu later confirmed that the clause was for a significant amount, but an amount that they are capable of paying if they wish to make the deal permanent.

“Very important, we really wanted to have a purchase clause,” Sucu said. “In the end, an amount was entered into the contract. It’s an important amount, but one that we could pay.”

Rapid minority shareholder Victor Angelescu also spoke about the transfer, back in June.

“We have been working on Cîrjan’s transfer for about a month and a half,” Angelsecu said then.

“It was the hardest transfer, the negotiations took a very long time, because we wanted to have a purchase clause, which Arsenal didn’t initially want, but in the end, we reached an agreement.

“We took him to play, we didn’t struggle for a month and a half for him to sit on the bench.”

Yet that’s exactly how things are panning out at the moment.

After five appearances and one assist in Rapid’s first five games of the season, Cirjan then dropped out of the side for the subsequent five fixtures.

The Romania u21 international made the squad on all five occasions, but he only came on in Rapid’s most recent fixture against CFR Cluj, playing nine minutes.

If that continues, the chances of Rapid paying up for their significant purchase clause don’t seem particularly high.