“The coach called me and told me NOT to give Louis Munteanu two million!” + hit of 430,000 euros

Article by Romeo Ene – Published on Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 22:17 / Updated on Wednesday, 19 November 2025 22:22
Gigi Becali (67 years old), the owner of FCSB, had a telephone intervention on Wednesday evening. Without giving his name, the financier of the Romanian champion revealed that Marius Șumudică (54 years old) called him on Tuesday evening and advised him not to pay more than two million euros for the transfer of Louis Munteanu (23 years old) from CFR Cluj.
In addition, the boss of the red-blues explained the fact that UEFA put 430,000 euros into his account on Wednesday: “He won a lot of money and shared it. It was some money that we did not count,” he said.
Gigi Becali, called by Marius Șumudică: “He told me not to give more than two million euros for Louis Munteanu”
Becali would have paid 4.5 million euros in exchange for Munteanu and Emerllahu, the CFR footballers, but things got stuck when it came to the salary of the attacking top.
He would have requested 60,000 euros per month, and the financier didn't even want to hear it. Now, he said that Şumudica advised him not to pay more than two million euros for the Transylvanian striker.
“A friend of mine called me last night after the Romania match. I had gone to bed, because I sleep at 10:30-10:30. I called him in the morning and he said: «Well, Gigi, you're my brother and I called you».
«Why did you call me, I said? To tell me not to give more than 2 million to Louis Munteanu. I won't tell you his name, you probably know who he is. Coach and also won championships in Romania.
The man knows how, he also trained abroad, had performances, qualified teams in European cups and in Turkey. It's that the way he spoke to me bothered me. I closed them, I started laughing”, said Becali, on “Digi Sport Special”.

Louis Munteanu, the striker of CFR Cluj/ PHOTO Cristi Preda (GSP)
430,000 euros for FCSB
“UEFA thought today and made me happy, 430,000 euros in my account, I didn't know what it was from. They gave us a “correction”. UEFA earned a lot of extra money and shared it, they gave us 430,000 euros.
The money is from this season, I don't know, I have no idea. It was some money that I didn't count on.
At Coman (no – the transfer of Florinel Coman to Al-Gharafa) 6 million plus about 600,000 euros in interest came in. I notified them. It was 5 million plus 1 million penalty. Penalty means to fine you. Because they didn't pay within the deadline, they were sentenced, one million more”, added the financier of the FCSB.
I want to fall with Ukraine. We have beaten them before, we beat them 3-0 and I believe we can beat them 1-0. And they will retaliate. That's what I think, let me tell you something.
If God wants us to qualify, there is one more match (no – two)Sir, you can also play with Denmark, anyone, you are lucky, you beat her and you qualified.
Lucescu was contested by many people, even I do not say that he did well what he did. He has had so many great successes in his life, will he not even be lucky enough to qualify in his old age? He's been a lucky man in life in everything he's done, maybe he'll make the team.
– Gigi Becalithe patron of FCSB




