Rapid He is still looking for a coach, and Dan Șucu is trying a surprising move: Costel Gâlcă.
The Giulestii want to move as soon as possible and name the new coach next days, after Marius Șumudică left the team with a stage before the end of the play-off. The management plan is for the new technician to be appointed until the reunion on June 9, as GSP.ro wrote. And Dan Șucu and the rest of the Rapid leadership are in full searches.
Quickly searched Costel Gâlcă. The coach would not refuse
The majority shareholder of the Rapid wanted an Italian coach, but on his list he is now, as Fanatik notes, a surprise name: Costel Gâlcă.
Costel Gâlcă during the Rapid match – Craiova University/ Photo: Ionuț Iordache GSP
The 53 -year -old coach is now in Spain but his close friends They confirmed for GSP.ro that it was sought by the representatives of the Giulesti to discuss a possible takeover of the team. The two parties negotiated some of the aspects of the contract, the discussion being now related to the clauses in the agreement.
Gâlcă is an acquaintance as a balanced and calculated coach, especially in terms of contracts, and would like a termination clause, as he had at FCSB and Craiova University. At the Gigi Becali red-blue club he kept in office until the contract is completed, and from Olteni he chose 200,000 euros out of the 500,000 euros in the contract.
The coach who is free of contract since the end of January would be willing to come to Rapid and is willing to be less demanding in negotiations, especially since he wants a new champion title in Romania, after the one taken with FCSB (2015).
But it remains to be seen if Dan Șucu will accept his requirements. The Boss from Giulești wants Gâlcă, considering that he is a technician to his taste: serious and demanding. In addition, he knows the Romanian championship well, an advantage over a foreign coach.
There is also an aspect that anxious to Șucu: Gâlcă's red-blue past and how the fans would receive it.
Costel Gâlcă also trained at Almeria B, Romania U17, FCSB (with which he took the title, Cup and League Cup), Espanyol, Al Taawoun, Al Fayha, Vejle, Al Hazem, Radomiak and Craiova University (April 2024 – January 2025).
I wish them success, but I think we could do more. The results speak. We suffered a lot not that we did not produce football, but I did not score! If you do not score and you have no points, it is complicated to resist. And so I could still stay, but you know how it is. Eventually, I came to an agreement. I'm not leaving with a bitter taste. And at this moment, the team looked better and better, but you depend on the void, you depend on the victories. I regret it, but I tell those around the club to be positive, to believe in the team. I do not include myself, but I have worked here and they are too negative.
Was amicable. I take like the bank, because I can't pay and I know and I understand. It's ok. He also made the club an effort, I made an effort and I agreed to take for many years
– Costel Gâlcă, when leaving the University of Craiova
