It then became apparent that Patulea's former club, Petrolul Ploieşti, held his registration and his switch to Sincil Bank looked to be over when his parent club demanded a large fee from City.
Jean Sony Alcénat (born 23 January 1986 in Port-au-Prince), commonly known as Sony, is a Haitian footballer who plays as a right defender for Liga I club Petrolul Ploiești.
The first match to be played at the stadium was an exhibition game between a team of former Petrolul Ploiești, the generation which won the Romanian Cup in 1995, and a selection of former Romanian internationals, amongst which Gheorghe Hagi, Gheorghe Popescu, Viorel Moldovan, Ovidiu Stângă and Daniel Prodan.
After passing through the renowned youth academies of Le Havre and Auxerre, Loizeau spent the early years of his professional career with Créteil (then in Ligue 2) and Paris FC (then in Championnat National) before moving abroad in 2006, to Romanian Liga II side Petrolul Ploieşti.