For any membership to stump up £9m to your providers, you will need to have carried out one thing proper. And Cvancara – capped eight instances – did a lot proper at Sparta.
At his finest within the Czech high flight, the 6ft 3in ahead used his presence, tempo and energy to devastating impact, whereas he was additionally scientific.
Netting 24 instances in 39 begins, a goals-per-minute ratio of round 131, triggered curiosity from Gladbach, who introduced Cvancara to the Bundesliga in the summertime of 2023.
The ahead’s profession stalled in Germany, although, scoring simply eight targets in 54 appearances, most of which have come from the bench.
However his time at Gladbach will likely be remembered most for being on the centre of a unprecedented crew dispute on the finish of a difficult season final 12 months.
It was claimed that Cvancara was a disruptive affect within the dressing room and that his team-mates had demanded he was excluded from the squad.
The striker responded by admitting he was not completely satisfied on the membership and revealed he needed to exit on mortgage, a press release later labelled “a mistake” by the membership’s then sporting director.
It was not the primary time the ahead felt the necessity to publicly defend his character. Two years in the past, he stated: “Folks say I’m out of my thoughts and that I lack humility.
“And but none of them truly know me personally. None of them have ever requested me what I have been by means of in my life and why I am the best way I’m on the pitch and in life.”
Amid one of many wildest Scottish soccer seasons in latest reminiscence, together with his new membership key contributors, the hope for Cvancara is he can reclaim calm and type at a fractured Celtic embroiled within the chaos of the Premiership.
“He isn’t truly a goal man,” stated O’Neill. “He isn’t the John Hartson sort.
“He’s fast and he is agile and needs to show himself. However if you happen to assume he is the speedy reply to any drawback now we have, I am unsure I wish to throw that type of accountability on him.”
Cvancara’s first project in Scotland is prone to be a go to to leaders Hearts on Sunday, a recreation completely stacked with strain for the defending champions.
