Article by Maria Olteanu – Published Saturday, 22 November 2025, 23:39 / Updated Saturday, 22 November 2025 23:40
FCSB – Oil. Claudiu Tudor (40 years old), the president of Petrolul, appeared live on the GSP Live Special show, moderated by Mihai Mironică, immediately after the final whistle of the match at the National Arena, which ended in a tie, score 1-1.
He analyzed Saturday's game, in which his team managed to get a point, he talked about the amendment of the Sports Law, about the national team and the March tie with Turkey, as well as about a surprise clause that Tidiane Keita has in his contract, if CFR Cluj reaches the play-offs.
Speaking about the national team, Tudor proposed Gicu Grozav to Lucescu's team, at least as a “superstition”, being convinced that even at 35 years old he could still face the demands of the first representative and that he could bring luck with Turkey.
Claudiu Tudor's reaction after the draw in Bucharest
“I'd be a hypocrite to say we're not happy, we're really happy. If he made us sign before the game, we'd sign with our eyes closed for a draw.
Honestly, at halftime the discussion between us was that it's good that it's only 1-0, because we knew that we couldn't play worse than that and we know that we can do it better.
After Ricardinho's chance we started to feel that it was possible, Eugen was very inspired, and he changed the way to 4, we took risks, we had situations as well as them. FCSB is better on paper in every way, champion, best lot.
If we didn't deserve to lose in the round match, today we managed to take a very important moral point, which certifies us that we are on the right path and that the choice of Eugen Neagoe was a plus until today.
A good course, Eugen is balanced, with a win with Metaloglobus we get to where we think we are after the poor start to the season. Sălceanu is a player who in the future can be in the national team, not immediately, he has to establish himself in the youth, we have been following him for 6 years, we used to go to Mogoșoaia, he is the 2004 group.
We really wanted to take him, he chose Farul, and he realized that he has a chance to play with us, he managed to leave there, he is a serious boy and I am convinced that he can have a very, very nice career, a serious, strong, working child, he will have a beautiful future”, said Claudiu Tudor, on GSP Live Special, after the match on Saturday night.
Caludiu Tudor, about the “Novak Law”
“I'm of two minds, I don't even know how to say, if you ask me personally about the idea of fencing someone's workplace, I don't agree.
On the other hand, for Romanian sports and for Petrol, we cannot buy players with money from outside, Petrol looks and chooses players, after all it is a good law for us, I hope that the prices of Romanian players do not increase, they inflate. That's the problem, to have Romanian players at high prices, that will be a delicate problem and we'll see how we're going to solve it”, said Tudor.
Mihai Mironică: “Are we taking Gicu Grozav to the national team?”
“That's what we were discussing this week, to score 5-6 goals until March so that Mircea can take it and throw it at the end, score and make us happy once more.
20-25 minutes with Turkey can play without problems. Let it be a matter of superstition, let's go with Gicu to Turkey and manage to qualify for the final of the pool”added Tudor.
Extra money if CFR qualifies in the play-offs
He also announced that Petrolul will collect 50,000 euros more if CFR Cluj qualifies in the play-offs, as a clause in Keita's contract. At this moment, however, the Romanian vice-champion is far from the top 6.
“I want FCSB to go to the play-offs, at one point I also wanted CFR to go, I didn't tell you, but I'm telling you directly like this, the fact that we have a clause with Keita during 3 years. If CFR reaches the play-offs we still have 50,000 euros and then I want CFR to be in the play-offs too, so that we can get money”continued Tudor.
I want to congratulate Kovacs for the way he refereed, well done to him, he is on the right track, he has something to learn from his brother, a referee who is growing, even if we also had problems with the referees, they are human and they make mistakes, know that we have good referees, Barbu, Colțescu, after that problematic match.
We are also experiencing very difficult moments in the stands and we rightfully rage, but I think we also have referees who cope brilliantly, and Fesnic, quite good, look at Istvan Kovacs, we want it, we don't want it, he makes us proud of Romanian refereeing in Europe.
– Claudiu Tudor, president of Petrolul Ploiești, at GSP Live Special
Images from FCSB – Petrolul 1-1
VIDEO with the equalizing goal scored by Robert Sălceanu
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