5 amazing examples of waste

Article by Daniel Grigore – published on Saturday, August 9, 2025, 14:13 / Updated on Saturday, 09 August 2025 14:15
Most likely, Alexandru Băluță will receive 200,000 euros because he accepted the termination of the contract with FCSB. It is still one from a long string of shocking business concluded by Gigi Becali, the owner of whom he does not care how much money loses when he is stain on a footballer.
Probably Elias Charalambous, Mihai Pintilii and Mihai Stoica wanted Alexandru Băluță to stay at FCSB and represent an additional solution on the offensive phase, but was irrelevant to Gigi Becali, convinced that the side midfielder can no longer help the team (or bring money).
The landlord did everything possible to get rid of Băluță and accepted to pay her 50,000 euros For now, only the footballer to sign the termination. Most likely, the amount will go up to 200,000 euros when FCSB will enter a European group, a plausible scenario.
So, 200,000 euros paid from a whim, a decision that complements the misunderstood business list that Becali has assumed to make in recent years. I aggregated 5 other examples.
Marius Stefanescu, sold at a loss of 1 million euros
Another recent case of waste: Marius Stefanescu, a player for whom he paid 1.3 million euros last summer and for which Mihai Stoica insisted on stayingwas sold for only 300,000 euros, at a loss of 1 million although its benefits did not recommend such a quota collapse.
The fact that it was a big beating for Stefanescu's services, disputed by 3 teams from Romania with pretensions in the first places and two bands in Turkey, suggests that Becali has been hasty by giving up Stefanescu or at least asked for a sum below how much the player is worth.
He accepted a crazy clause in Bîrligea although he bought with two million
Gigi Becali paid a total of 2.2 million euros, also with taxes and commissions, to transfer Daniel Bîrligea from CFR Cluj.
In view of the amount involved, one of the clauses that the FCSB owner has accepted is quite crazy: that Bîrligea could not play against the Transylvanians unless Becali had turned some money in Gruia100,000 euros for each appearance.
This clause, only valid in Bîrligea's first season at FCSB, is something unheard of in big football, where some clubs do not allow the players to be played against them. Only in the case of loans.
19 goalsIn 38 parties he registered Bîrligea at FCSB. Against CFR has not played so far: in 4 games did not allow that clause, in the fifth (supeck) was injured
Budescu gave 150,000 euros, Vucur, Crețu and Ondrasek 220,000
Also in the chapter “Expensive terminars” are Constantin Budescu, Stipe Vucur, Alexandru Crețu and Zdenek Ondrasek, other footballers who have put Gigi Becali's stain in recent years.
To kick them out, Gigi Becali paid 370,000 euros in the form of compensation and anticipated salaries: 150,000 to Budescu, 110,000 to Ondrasek, 110,000 in place of Vucur and Crețu. There are colossal amounts, which most of the teams in Superliga do not allow them to pay for transfers, but Gigi Becali throws them “on the window” at the terminars!
Sold the scorer with a sum of 12 times smaller than paid
We continue with the situation of the Italian goalscorer Andrea Compagno. Becali bought 1.5 million euros from FCU Craiova, the Italian scored 16 goals in the first season, but in the middle of the next season, against the background of a bad passe, sold for only 120,000 euros, an amount of 12 times lower than the one he paid two ago.
Compagno had not lost its marker instinct: As a proof, after FCSB, at Tianjin Jinmen Tiger he scored 19 times in 29 appearances, and at Jeonbuk 14 times in 24 matches.

Andrea Compagno is doing well in South Korea, at Jeonbuk
Bought with 1 million, given back free
We conclude with the example Eduard Radaslavescu. After being promoted to the first team of the lighthouse and seemed one of the most promising young footballers in the internal championship, Gigi Becali decided to pay Gică Hagi 1 million for Radaslavescu's services.
It was a “moft” of Becali, a transfer made although There was no Radaslavescu's regimenting strategy at FCSB. As a result, the business turned into a fiasco, and Becali did everything possible to get rid of the young midfielder. After all, he sent him back to the Lighthouse, for free.
When we draw the line, we account for 1 million euros (only as a transfer) for only two goals in 47 appearances at FCSB.




