Article by Liviu Manolache, Maria Olteanu – Published Saturday, January 10, 2026, 12:15 / Updated Saturday, January 10, 2026 12:19
Adrian Șut (26 years old) is no longer the FCSB player. The Romanian champion announced on Saturday at noon the separation from one of the most emblematic players in the club's history.
The defensive midfielder will go to Al Ain, the leader in the United Arab Emirates, from this winter. The transfer amount, as claimed by Gigi Becali, FCSB boss, is around 1.5 million euros.
OFFICIAL » Adrian Șut has left FCSB
“FCSB announces the transfer of Adrian Șut to Al Ain Football Club, the most titled club in the United Arab Emirates.
In the more than five years he was active for our club, Adrian was one of the core players and decisively contributed to winning two titles, as well as two Romanian Supercups, in addition to solid developments in European cups.
Our club thanks him for his involvement and wishes him much success with his new team!”, FCSB representatives sent on the Facebook page.
Adrian Șut left FCSB / photo: Facebook
The defensive midfielder, who will turn 27 on April 30, plays in the red-blue shirt of FCSB in the summer of 2019. He has become a constant presence and undisputed starter since the summer of 2020, collecting 212 matches, 16 goals, 13 decisive assists and 4 trophies, two championships and two Super Cups in the red and blue.
Of the more than 200 matches at FCSB, 39 are in European cups, where he managed to score 3 times.
Now for Șut is a challenge abroad, at the leading Emirates team with 14 titles, most recently in 2022. He also won the Asian Champions League twice, in 2003 and 2024.
8selections for the national team were collected by Adrian Șut
The team will manage without Shot. I'll put it this way. We take the U21 out of the question and have, in 4-2-3-1, the two central midfielders, then we count the ones behind the top, without the U21 player.
Chiricheș, Lixandru, Baba, Tănase, Cisotti, Olaru, Miculescu, do you want me to continue? That there are already 7. Politic, Thiam, Octavian Popescu. There are 10. Do you think this is our problem now, that Adrian Șut has left? We have solutions!
– Mihai Stoica, president of the Board of Directors at FCSB
