Steven Gerrard’s Scottish Premiership powerhouses Rangers sold Daniel Candeias to Turkish Super Lig outfit Genclerbirligi this summer.
It’s fair to say Daniel Candeias was hoping for a far happier start to life at Genclerbirligi.
After just two years at Rangers, a chalk-booted winger with a pinpoint cross in his locker headed to Turkey to join the 14th, yes fourteenth, club of his professional career.
Candeias has represented Porto, Benfica and nine-term German champions Nurnburg as well as the giants from the blue side of Glasgow, but the early signs don’t look good for the 31-year-old in Turkey.
Genclerbirligi are already bottom of the Turkish Super Lig with a grand total of zero points from a possible nine. Candeias lost 1-0 to Rizespor on his debut and that has been followed by a 4-1 thrashing at Gazisehir and a narrow 2-1 defeat to Istanbul Bakaksehir in front of their own supporters.
Candeias is yet to provide a goal or an assist either with Genclerbirligi, who only returned to the top flight last season, seemingly in danger of an immediate return to the second division already.
According to The Scottish Sun, Rangers sold Candeias for just £250,000 in July but, as it stands, he has a long way to go to justify even a miniscule price-tag.
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