“Ribs, I tell you! They sacked you and helped you get the clause, you can never do that”

Ashley Davis22/12/2025

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Article by Romeo Ene – Published Monday, December 22, 2025, 1:15 p.m. / Updated Monday, December 22, 2025, 1:24 p.m.

FCSB – Rapid 2-1. Marius Șumudică (54 years old), coach free of contract after parting with the Giulești formation, criticized the strategy of Costel Gâlcă (53 years old) in the derby at the National Arena.

Şumudică did not understand the end-game statements made by A1 from Rapid. He requested quantity when speaking of players. Taking into account the fact that Gâlcă will work with 90% of them even after January 1, Şumudica wanted to mock him for this statement.

Şumudica went on to irony about Gâlcă: “These players fired Giulești”

The contract-free technician also referred, in an ironic tone, to the time when Gâlcă was on the bench of the University of Craiova, last season, when he was dismissed following a failure at Giulesti, score 0-1. Coincidence or not, Şumudica was then the coach of Rapid.

“I saw a statement from Gâlcă, I don't want it to be part of a coach's portfolio. There is a rapid lack of leaders, when you think that in two weeks you will meet 90% of these players, I think this intervention in which you say that you only have quantity and not quality is not appropriate.

I think it's a very big mistake, as far as I knew him to be balanced, I don't think he should have made such a public statement, in front of everyone, that's what you discuss with the management, the players, whoever, but not to go out publicly and say that you have quantity and you don't have quality.

You say you are the best coach and you have nothing to coach. No, Costele, I tell you! These players fired you last year from Craiova on Giulești, when you also had Mitriță, you had a better team than Rapid.

These players beat you 1-0 in Giulești and sacked you, in fact they helped you get Mr. Rotaru's clause“, said Şumudica, according to fanatik.ro.

I expected more points, but we need players. And in the middle, and in attack… We need players with personality and quality.

We have quantity, but we need quality players. I think so. If we want to achieve our goals, we need valuable players.

– the statement to Gâlcă “activated” Şumudică

Condemns the statements of the technician from Rapid: “You can never say what you said, blame the players”

“The football is inferior to their quality, the problem is not the quality. You have to know how to use the quality, the Rapid players have quality, many of them, but this quality has to be trained. You have to see what happened yesterday, you are a long team, spread over 70 or so meters.

You can never say what you said, blame the players. Rapid at the moment does not play to the quality of the players. This is the problem, and this can be trained, because without intensity, desire for victory, without breaks in rhythm, reaction, before requests and apologies, that I see that now it has become a phrase.

Everyone says they still need it, it's a virus, we're in a pandemic, we need reinforcements, but before an apology there must be a responsibility of the coach, of those who are guilty.

I repeat and I want to conclude, Rapid's football is much inferior to the quality of Rapid's players. The players have quality, these players took you to the top. Rapid was playing what he had to play.

I've never seen a Rapid – FCSB derby where you couldn't cross the center of the pitch for 20 minutes,” added Marius Șumudică.