Article by Maria Olteanu – published Tuesday, June 03, 2025, 08:32 / Updated Tuesday, June 3, 2025 08:33
Denis Alibec (34 years old) is FCSB's new strikerafter reaching an agreement with the group of Gigi Becali, thus returning to the Capital after the first experience in red-blue, from 2017-2018. The seaside officials revealed what was hidden behind this move and what is the real reason why the Romanian international was transferred to the Romanian champion.
Alibec has managed to save himself with the Lighthouse from relegation in the recently completed season, but the last few months have been difficult at the sea club. The problems were also financially, and Alibec's salary was also a heavy “stone” for the heads of the Ovidiu group.
That is why, through the voice of the team's president, Gică Popescu, was revealed the reason why Alibec could not be kept on the team, given his financial claims, impossible to satisfy those from Farul.
Alibec signed with FCSB from the position of contract free player.
Denis Alibec could no longer be paid by the Lighthouse
“We could no longer pay Alibec. We made a huge effort this season to pay him. We have no opportunity to pay players at the financial level that Alibec wants.
I thanked him, he helped us enormously this season. Always when he came to the Lighthouse he put a lot of soul. We know how much this team loves.
Their career is short and they have to win as much as possible. We could not satisfy these financial claims that, with an incredible effort, we made them last season ”, said Gică Popescu, quoted by Digisport.ro.
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At FCSB, Denis Alibec will have a salary of 25,000 euros per month, thus becoming the second best paid player, after Florin Tanase, who earns 30,000 euros per month;
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At the Lighthouse, Alibec was one of the best paid footballers, with a salary of about 10,000 euros per month.
Alibec will fight for a place of holder with Daniel Bîrligea
“It's an important move. It was hard to convince me for three years. I had a discussion with Mr. Hagi, Mr. Gigi Becali. I agreed to have a very good relationship and I think it would be very good. There were no conditions, the only thing I told him (no – Gigi Becali) was to have a good relationship.
Most of all, the discussion with Mr. Hagi mattered, because I spoke to him, with the leadership of the lighthouse, he could not continue, because it will be a change there and I could not stay, “said Denis Alibec, after signing his contract with FCSB.
Denis Alibec has 3 champion titles in Romania, obtained with 3 different clubs: Astra (2016), CFR Cluj (2022), Lighthouse (2023). If he wins the title with FCSB this season, he will become the first footballer in history to win 4 championships with 4 different teams.
It has a market share of 700,000 euros on the specialized site transfermarkt.com. It has 43 matches and 6 goals in the Romanian national shirt, for which it debuted in October 2015.
