“When I do this, rare are the moments when 11 to 11 with opponents are playing.”

Article by Tudor Belivaca – published on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 18:48 / Updated Thursday, September 18, 20:49
Ionel Dănciulescu, the former striker from Dinamo and Steaua, analyzed the unconvincing beginning of the FCSB champion.
The former striker believes that the main reason why FCSB has gathered only 7 points in 9 stages is the lack of a U21 player to be at the team level.
Ionel Dănciulescu, mercilessly with the U21 players from FCSB: “Rare are the moments when 11 to 11 with opponents are playing”
“In Europe they are not obliged to use the U21 rule. When using Under, rare are the times when they play 11 to 11 with opponents, because they are not players plus the team.
That's my opinion! It can be seen that they are not FCSB players! Craiova is covered very well, which does not happen at FCSB. It's their fault that they didn't prepare. Craiova has 5-6 very good Under variants, FCSB no ”, said Ionel Dănciulescu, according to digisport.ro.
What players does Ionel Dănciulescu refer to: FCSB has 4 U21 footballers in the lot
The red-blue have four varinated players to fulfill the U21 rule in the championship. The main variants are Ionuț Cercel (18 years old, right defender) and Mihai Toma (18 years, midfielder, but also used right -handed defender of FCSB or extreme). The other variants are Andrei Dăncuș (16 years old, central defender, including for the list of European cups) and Alexandru Stoian (17 years, striker, used less because of the great density of attackers in the lot).
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Ionuț Cercel (18 years old, right defender) – played only at Constanța Lighthouse. It has 9 matches for FCSB, 5 this season, zero contributions. The specialized sites quoted it at 500,000 euros

Ionuț Cercel / PHOTO: Cristi Preda (GSP)
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Mihai Toma (18 years old, midfielder) – product of the FCSB Academy, took the step to the big team in 2023. It has 30 matches for the red -blue, 7 this season. From 2023 until now it has only 3 decisive passes. It is listed at 400,000 euros by specialized sites.

Mihai Toma, in Dinamo – FCSB/ Photo duel: Ionuț Iordache (GSP)
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Andrei Dăncuș (16 years old, central defender) – a product of the FCSB Academy, was promoted this year to the big team and played a single match.

Andrei Dăncuș, first on the left, among FCSB's seniors. Photo: Cristi Preda (GSP)
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Alexandru Stoian (17 years old, striker) – played at the level of seniors at Constanța Lighthouse. He arrived at FCSB in January and since then has collected 8 matches and 2 goals. Quoted at 500,000 euros by specialized sites and with little chance to play due to multiple variants: Daniel Bîrligea, Denis Alibec, Mamadou Thiam

Alexandru Stoian has a termination clause worth 30 million euros / photo: Cristi Preda (gsp.ro)
Mihai Stoica, the president of the FCSB Board of Directors, announced two days ago that Ionuț Cercel, the main player used for the U21 rule, was injured. As a result of this event, FCSB will seek to integrate Mihai Toma in the first 11.
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