The amazing rise of Siyabonga Ngezana post his seven years first team stay at Kaizer Chiefs has set him up to benefits that he would still have not enjoyed if he had stayed at Naturena.
Ngezana will end his first season at Romanian Super Liga club FCSB (formerly Steaua Bucuresti) as league champion after playing a key role.
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The 26-year-old has played 31 games for 1986 European champions since arriving last July.
Beyond the game time that he has enjoyed, Ngezana has already been a subject of transfer talk with clubs in France, Belgium, and Turkey having taken notice.
Ngezana has been South Africa’s best performing player in Europe and having won the league in Romania he has already secured the ticket to play in the UEFA Champions League.
FCSB will enter the competition in the first qualifying rounds as soon as July.
The subject of transfer will come with weighing up his evaluation which has now doubled in less than a year since leaving Chiefs.
According to his Transfermakt valuation, Ngezana is now at the 1,3 million Euro (approximately R25 million) mark and rising.
It was reported that he was sold for 600 000 Euro (approx. R12 million) when he left Chiefs.
There was also interest from Moldova Super Liga serial winners FC Sheriff Tirapspol, FC Copenhagen from Denmark, and Ferencvarosi TC of Hungary.
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If he gets to stay at FCSB next season and play in all the three Champions League qualifying rounds and the play-offs, then he will earn further points to increase his transfer value towards the 3 million Euro mark (approx. R60 million).
The only disadvantage for Ngezana has been that his Bafana Bafana career has been stagnant.
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