“I cleaned the club of some evil characters”

The head of the CFR congratulated his players and explained that his team was superior and the victory was deserved. Asked if sports director Bogdan Mara will leave the team, he avoided giving a concrete answer.

Then, Muresan was questioned about the imminent return of Marian Copilu to CFR, as the boss Ioan Varga had declared a few days ago.

The president of the club admitted that he was not informed by the shareholder about this aspect, but he could work with anyone. He explains that in the past he has “cleansed” the club of some dubious characters, without naming them.

Iuliu Mureșan, statements after Rapid – CFR Cluj 1-2: “If we take 3rd place we are satisfied”

“I liked the result, it's three points, it doesn't matter how, and if it was 1-0 it was painful. I played well, there was a moment when I made a mistake in defense and scored a goal, but otherwise I had no emotions. We put it in the goal, less, unfortunately for them and fortunately for us.

It was too much safety from our defenders, they wanted to be more technical than necessary and they slightly missed two balls.

Camora and Popa, who deserve congratulations for how they defended, it was out of sync, we had to score and then there was the goal phase, in which we gave them a gift, I don't know if they were giving us a goal, and Rapid gave us gifts, that's how it is.

We were the better team, we dominated, we won more duels, we wanted the victory more, I don't know what's wrong with Rapid, but it's not good for them. Something is not working, very large investments have been made, many transfers, but the results are not very good. They were sad, I saw the players, the staff I talked to.

I'm with Mara in the car and she's taking me to the hotel. He is here with me, he is also an employee of the club (no – asked if he is leaving). Ask him, he's next to me, but I won't give him to you on the phone.

We were disadvantaged several times when scheduling the matches, it's the fourth or fifth match when we play it on Monday or Friday, others had an extra day or two”, said Iuliu Mureșan, on the show “Fotbal Club”, from Digi Sport.

(Pancu remains at CFR, are you sure he stays?) I am sure that I want him very much, I am with him, today he had a very difficult day, it was very difficult for him to play against Rapid, he told me about the atmosphere, what will happen, he was very affected.

There was pressure, the public puts a lot of pressure on the team, every time Aioani touched the ball he was booed, I don't know if he deserved it and I don't know why. It automatically extends and increases the contract if it gets a Conference seat. Money was always with CFR.

– Iuliu Muresanthe president of CFR Cluj

What Muresan says about a possible collaboration with Marian Copilu: “I can work with anyone”

Recently, there has been more and more talk about the return to the management of the club of two of the people who were in the past at CFR: Marian Copilu and the jurist Ioan Ivașcu.

Mureșan claims that he could work with the former, but he will make a decision in this regard in the summer:

“My position is that, whatever it is, I have to finish my assumed mandate until the end of this championship and then we will sit down and talk with Nelutu Varga. What can I comment?

I can work with anyone, I'm a person who knows how to bring people together, you don't scatter them, others do.

And at CFR I didn't do anything special, but I gathered the people, that's what the success of the team consisted of, we gathered everyone, we became a family, before it was a disaster, I cleaned the club of some characters who were evil and did harm”, added Mureșan.

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