Mircea Sandu intervened following Lucescu Sr.'s statements and mentioned that he did not want to offer any response to the technician's words. However, the former head of the FRF specified that Mircea Lucescu should have provided more information on the accusations.

"(no. What does Mr. Lucescu have with you? He's been pinching you lately) I didn't feel it, no! (laughs – no). I took advantage of Romanian football as football took advantage of me. But, I don't want to make any blunders or as they call them... we do investigations in the style of Bulibaşa, God forgive me! In this world there are many who consider themselves Mafalda, without any reference to Mircea Lucescu.

I'm less interested, I have other concerns, everyone can say what they want, how they want... I don't have any kind of... I don't have an analysis, reply, I'm not interested. For me, as for him, as for others, the statistics speak.

Mircea Sandu dusts off Mircea Lucescu: "He should keep quiet, otherwise I'll start talking too