Gigi Becali can no longer stand the humiliations and is tired of being laughed at by the world. “Maybe the time has come to retire from football”
FCSB missed out on qualifying for the play-offs and looked set to gallop into the second tier. But the champion is not even in the 2nd echelon of the Supeliga, drawing with Metaloglobus and losing last night 3-2 at Botoșani in the first 3 stages of the play-out. The team's performance brought down Gigi Becali, who threatened to step down from the helm of the club, as he did a few years ago when he was disappointed with the results.
Gigi Becali doesn't understand anything anymore. Sportpictures photo
Gigi Becali can no longer bear the humiliations of this season: “Maybe the time has come for me to withdraw, get rid of me. Goodbye football, I'm selling the team. To be laughed at in the play-out? I was number 1 until now, but I can't anymore, football advanced. Methods, all of them, I can't anymore”the team owner told DigiSport. FCSB was dominated in the second part of the match in Botoșani, a fact that made the financier show his disappointment, but also to blame the new coach, Mirel Rădoi. Admittedly, not as he did during the mandate of the Charalambous-Pintilii couple.
Let Mirel Rădoi play
“I didn't manage this game. You know my concept: let the ball be in my court. That's how I see football. If it's my ball, even if I'm beaten, it doesn't matter. If I don't have the ball, it doesn't suit me. For the ball to be yours, you have to move on the field to receive it. I thought that Mirel would solve it. What to say to Mirel? I say: if you don't have a midfielder, a right back, a striker, you can't win the match.
I would tell Mirel to improvise something in the middle. Poor Lixandru passes to the opponent. Not just him. I see a lightness… Pantea has lost balls. We don't have a midfielder, we don't have anyone to play with. He has nothing to do. He doesn't have a striker either. Bîrligea was not fit. I don't know what happened to Bîrligea. It's Mirel's job. What should I say to Mirel? Should I tell him to play midfielder, because I don't have another better one? Pantea is 21-22 years old and… I might have played with Crețu. Mirela he has no team. I was the laughing stock of the world” Gigi Becali unleashed.
His right-hand man, manager Mihai Stoica, also entered the patron's collimator: “I told Meme, I'll pay however much, it doesn't matter, two million, but he didn't take anything”.
