Porumboiu intervenes in the Rădoi dispute

Article by Romeo Ene – Published Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:07 p.m. / Updated Friday, October 24, 2025, 1:08 p.m.
Adrian Porumboiu (75 years old), the former owner of FC Vaslui, expressed his opinion about the dispute between Mirel Rădoi (44 years old), the coach of Craiova, and Ștefan We bathe (22 years old), top of the team. Thursday, the Oltenians drew at home with Noahscore 1-1, in stage 2 of the main group of the Conference League.
He was a substitute on the score sheet, but watched the match from the stands. He was excluded from the Rădoi team, after allegedly having a nervous breakdown upon learning that he would not start the game from the first minute.
corn he takes the side of the player, whom he considers one of the best in Romania.
In his view, Rădoi must accept his exits and use his qualities for the good of the team from a sporting point of view.
Adrian Porumboiu criticizes Mirel Rădoi, after the dispute with Baiaram: “Accept even if he swears at you. The player did very well!”
“The coach's lack of intelligence, because Baiaram is an exponential player who can win you games. I've had problem players too, but it's the value that matters.
I had quite big problems with Sânmartean, a coach said that he never plays him. He is an asset to the club and he has to play because he is valuable. In my opinion, the people from Craiova are wrong. He is also old, but for me, if I were in Rotaru's place, I would be interested in what he does on the field.
It is also stubbornness of the coach to show that he is the boss. I really like Baiaram. That's how you get it out of your hand. He had quite big offers, he has to play for the national team as well.
There are many coaches who want to show that they are the stars of the team. No, you can't be. You were as a player, you can't be as a coach. He has some exits… Baiaram is good, he is talented, he wins your matches. Accept and if he swears at you, that's it: let him play. It's stupid.
If they had a player who was better than him or equal in value, you made fun of him. Baiaram did very well! If you humiliate him once, twice, three times, he is a player with personality, he has his moods. You reserve it once, twice, three times…
I told him that it was in the interest of the club to play. The interest of the club is to gain points and capitalize at the most appropriate rate by selling players. You block him, too, mentally. Now who will buy it?
What did he want to do, bow? Shall we say the kiss? In the Emirates, bows were made differently, because he still trained there. Lose the club, but I think Rotaru will impose his point of view. You can't leave things like that. If you think you are a dictator of the team, not a coach, things like this happen,” said Porumboiu, for fanatik.ro.

He is a talented and effective player for the club, for the results he can get. Etim would have scored a goal, he can play, but it is stubbornness that has no purpose in a team with claims, with a fairly substantial budget for the Romanian championship.
Everyone does what they want. I've always liked talented players who live up to the definition of a footballer, and Baiaram is a footballer, not a football player. Rădoi has no value as a coach either.
You see the interest of the team. There are great players who have had such outings. A sane coach skips over these sporadic episodes. It's not a fight between the two. He is a talented footballer, who can play for the Romanian national team at any time. I like it. He has the brakes with him, he goes into the opponent, he goes at speed.
– Adrian Porumboiuabout Baiaram




