On Tuesday, FCSB transferred Daniel Bîrligea from CFR Cluj, a striker who signed a contract valid for five years, announced the financier of the Bucharest group, Gigi Becali.
Daniel Birligea. PHOTO: Facebook
The footballer has a release clause of 15 million euros, with FCSB paying more than 2 million euros in return.
“The contract was with them, at CFR, and they wrote what they wanted there. Bîrligea is not allowed to play against CFR for five years. But it doesn’t matter, in a year and a half he will make the step to a big team abroad, not to Lyon or I don’t know what, to a big, big team. He can leave even after six months, he plays three matches in European cups and he can have his clause paid and leave. I paid two million for him, plus others, but I don’t say anymore, because there are confidential clauses, it comes to about three million… They take money and if he plays in Europe, if he scores goals there, they take a lot, a lot . Now we will see how many goals he scores here and how many he would score at CFR. Let’s see if I know football. Well, Bîrligea is three classes above Louis Munteanu, it’s something else, it’s from another movie. I gave Bîrligea 25,000 salary (no – monthly), now I have to increase it to the others in the batch… well, they have 15-20,000, but if I gave it to him, I have to call them too on magnification“, Gigi Becali declared, according to Agerpres.
For his part, Daniel Bîrligea stated that he wants to score as many goals as possible in his new team.
“I am very happy to be here (no – at FCSB) and ready for battle. It is a great pleasure that I was wanted here so much… and at the national team and everywhere you need confidence to achieve results. I was always trusted and I repaid. Even now, I want to repay with deeds, not with words. We will all prepare for the Europa League matches, my idea is to score as much as possible, because I want to help the team first and then help myself. The more goals I score, the better“, said Bîrligea.
“At first, when I found out about FCSB’s interest, I was a bit confused… I didn’t know anymore, because there were calls after calls and there was a lot of confusion. But I’m happy, because I wanted to take a step forward. There were offers from Russia as well, everything that appeared in the press was true… but there were refusals from me and from the CFR club. I make the final decisions anyway, the manager helps me with the documents, but if I didn’t want to come to FCSB, I wouldn’t come. Nobody forces me if I don’t want to. There is no reason to be under pressure at FCSB, I am here to play football, to do what I love“, added the striker.
At the age of 24, Bîrligea was trained at the Italian group Palermo, he played at the senior level only for Teramo in Serie C, before arriving at CFR Cluj. In his record, he has a championship title with CFR Cluj, a team he has played for since January 2022.
