Chucu from the bottom and Chucu from the top

The “Italian” Şucu was never spectacular. There, in Il Calcio, the spectacular are others. The American from Parma, for example. Or De Laurentiis. They always get on the front page, regardless of their teams' ranking. In terms of public appearances, Dan Șucu is not far from Genoa's position. That is, the queue of everything.

The subject is not him, but Vieira

No one wants to interview a Romanian shareholder of the club without a win in the first eight games, with just three points from draws, in last place in Serie A, at least until the match with Cremonese on Wednesday night.

What could he say from this posture? That he took a Serie A club for 45 million euros, but which still has debts of about 150 million? Arid, too many numbers.

Il Romeno di Liguria can only be interesting when they declare that, despite the terrible position in the table, Patrick Vieira's job is not in danger. But even in this case, the selling name is Vieira's, not Șucu's.

Dan Șucu, during the pilgrimage to Craiova

Parisier is far away

In parallel with his discretion in Italy, Dan Șucu has started for some time now, (impossible not to have noticed the change), to be equally discreet in Romania. He no longer goes live on broadcasts, he no longer gives extensive interviews, as he did a year or two ago, when leaving matches he is laconic at best, if not completely silent.

Of course, those diaphanous tenderness with the lady still appear, after the goals of the Rapid, but the days of the Parisian eating on the hood, next to the supporters, seem distant, as if they never existed. Maybe he realized that from getting drunk on that Parisier and going out with the flock of chickens on the street, through Pipera, the road is not very long.

Angelescu, spokesperson

However, this media behavior of the main shareholder, much mitigated compared to the past, coincides with Rapid's best season for almost two decades. Speaking about the team from Giulești, Victor Angelescu talks especially, because even Costel Gâlcă is not kicked out of the house by loquacity. The recent discretion of the boss is comparable to the eternal discretion of the coach, and perhaps this is where the place in the ranking results from.

Don't offend rivals

At the moment he chose Gâlcă (because only he chose him, no one else), Dan Șucu took it upon himself to offer the Giulește tribune either a performance or the raw flesh of a thoroughbred star player, only good to be torn apart, in a place where there is no mercy, since even the speedster get-beget Şumudica suffered.

So far, only the version with the performance is valid, which means that the choice was good, and star player Costel has no problems with the lawn, not even when he refuses to chant masquerades at his rivals.

Costel, infectious discretion

Perhaps Gâlcă's discretion was the engine that also drove the patron to reduce his exits to the ramp. Gâlcă is so discreet that even his personal problems are summed up in a few sentences, then the topic becomes football.

A month or so ago Costel lost a brother, then recently the block in Rahova where he grew up and where his father lives blew up, but the coach's comments on account of these tragedies, although emotional, were short. Can you be anything other than discreet next to a man like Costel, who has never put his life on the line and who, at the top, takes your team much higher than you would have thought?