Gigi Becali had 4 clients after FC Botoșani

The boss of the champion does not reproach coach Mirel Rădoi for this failure, preferring to blame some of the players. Becali complained about the midfielders, right back Alexandru Pantea and striker Mamadou Thiam.

Gigi Becali had 4 clients after FC Botoșani – FCSB: Lixandru, Thiam, Alhassan and Pantea

“You know my philosophy, let the ball be with me. This is my concept. If the ball is with me, even if we beat, it doesn't matter. But if it's not, it doesn't suit me. The ball, for it to be with you, you have to move on the field, receive it. It's the same thing, I thought Mirel would solve it. Let's see, maybe he will solve it, with the movement on the field.

Plus, you can't tell Mirel… If you don't have midfielders, right back, striker, you can't win the match.

Lixandru… Poor him, that's it. We don't have a midfielder. And that one, Baba, makes mistakes. If I were to talk to [Rădoi] to say something to him, is to improvise something, to create a central midfielder. I don't know, I don't know.

We don't have the midfield. Poor Lixandru, passes to opponents… And that lightness of play. The slope loses balls, we have no midfielder, you have no one to play with.

I was the laughing stock of the world. We had two goals, but otherwise we didn't have a shot on goal. Thiam, when he could escape alone, he would take her, walk around, have fun, flirt. Well, you're a striker, go with the ball and hit the goal!”, said Becali in the first phase on the show “Fotbal Club”, on DigiSport.

Gigi Becali: “I have nothing to reproach Mirel”

Returning to Mirel Rădoi, Becali absolved him from blaming the coach for this failure:

“I asked the man for help, now I let him help me. If the man came, I leave him alone to do his job. The only thing I can tell him is that he has nothing to do. If he doesn't have an attacker, if Bîrligea was not valid… What can I reproach Mirel, what can I say to him?

Should he turn 25 and play? That's what I can blame him for, that he's not young to play. Or should he become an attacker, because I don't have an attacker? Or the slope? I would have played with Crețu, but he knows that. I have nothing to reproach Mirel with. It has no midfielder, striker and right back. Yes, he doesn't have a team. (…)

I'm going to talk now, I'm going to ask Mirel what he thinks is happening. But he knows. You mean he doesn't see Thiam, Lixandru and Pantea? Can't he see we don't have central defenders? Naturally, I will reshuffle the lot.”

If we qualify in the Conference, we make transfers of 5-6 million, I give everything to him. I can't do it anymore. I don't know how to do it. I don't know what to do to make a team play, to pass, to have possession. If I don't know, I withdraw and that's it.

– Gigi Becali

Gigi Becali: “Maybe the time has come for me to retire”

The landowner added that “if I see that it is so and it cannot recover, maybe the time has come for me to retire and me, get rid of me. Retirement means goodbye to football. I'm selling the team, I don't know, I see.

I'm either number 1 or I'm not. Until now I was number 1, I proved it. If I can no longer be… It's beyond me, football advanced. Football has grown, I can't anymore. I realized that it doesn't work like that anymore, I can't do what I've been doing until now.

At this time, as a year, I am satisfied with the receipts. It is a great shame that we are in the play-out, it is possible for Mirel to wash away the shame by qualifying for the Conference and start building a strong team”.