Article by Adrian Duţă, Alexandru Stanciu – Published Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 11:30 p.m. / Updated Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 11:30 p.m.
Gigi Becali, the owner of FCSB, announced that Daniel Bîrligea received a fine of 10,000 euros, after the red-blue striker was eliminated in the match with Hermannstadt, score 3-3.
At the end of the game in Sibiu, Bîrligea saw the second yellow card for protests against referee Radu Petrescu. After the match, Becali threatened that the striker would not return to Bucharest with the team bus.
Bîrligea went with Florin Tănase, with a rented car, directly to the training camp of the national team. He escaped a first penalty from Becali. however, he did not avoid the fine.
The boss of the red-blues declared that he talked with Bîrligea through Tănase and conveyed that any player who receives yellow cards due to the protests will be fined 10,000 euros.
Gigi Becali: “Any yellow card that is taken because of the protests – a fine of 10,000 euros”
“I have Bîrligea, who is not 19 years old, he is 25, and whom I can take, in my opinion, 10 million. I think I will take 10, because I have done him well now. The fine is given and the paper is written. Every player will take notice, with cameras, so that they do not go to the commissions afterwards. Any yellow card that is taken because of protests – fine 10,000 euros.
Not a regulation of internal order, the decision of the Board of Directors. That's what I decided. I have indiscipline and the Council has decided that we can lose millions of euros. You give a 10,000 euro fine, you pay, goodbye, it's over. I don't need him to sign, because I don't make regulations. I give a government decision, I give an emergency ordinance!
Bîrligea's fine has already been given! What he did is something that hasn't happened all over the world. Do you raise your hand to the referee, do you give him a card?! If we leave them like this, the players will fight with the referees on the field.
You give the fine to Bîrligea so that he won't do it again. I also spoke with Tănase and told him: “Well, everything that happens in the team is because of 3 players: Bîrligea, you and Olaru. Pantea was also learned from you». I don't see Rapid, Dinamo, Craiova.
I don't see any team doing what you do. You cursed, yellow! You don't play on the football field”, said Gigi Becali, at “Fotbal Club”, from Digi Sport.
Gigi Becali: “That's how we became the craziest team in the world, not in Europe!”
“I didn't talk to Bîrligea. He talked to Tănase and told him. Tănase told me. It's not swindling, it's a discussion with us. said that: “Lord, I will never do it again in my life” and that's it. That I didn't call Tănase to siphon, I don't need soda! If you're soda, I'm not talking to you in my life.
I spoke to him to get his attention. And I got Olaru's attention through the press. Turn your head, yell at the referee. Who are you to yell at the referee like that? The whole team was taught. Then came Târnovanu and after Pantea! That's how we became the craziest team in the world, not in Europe!
I let MM handle it. You are the culprit, I made you president, you answer. He said: “Yes, Gigi, I'll answer. I have never fined players in my life and I didn't want to do it, and I kept putting it off». Bîrligea can't anymore because you threaten them with fines. They are millionaires now. What should you give him, a 300,000 euro fine?”, Becali also said.
