For any membership to stump up £9m on your companies, you could have finished one thing proper. And Cvancara – capped eight occasions – did a lot proper at Sparta.
At his greatest within the Czech high flight, the 6ft 3in ahead used his presence, tempo and energy to devastating impact, whereas he was additionally medical.
Netting 24 occasions 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 probably be remembered most for being on the centre of a rare group dispute on the finish of a difficult season final yr.
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 comfortable on the membership and revealed he needed to exit on mortgage, an announcement 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 mentioned: “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 way in which I’m on the pitch and in life.”
Amid one of many wildest Scottish soccer seasons in current reminiscence, along with his new membership key contributors, the hope for Cvancara is he can reclaim calm and kind at a fractured Celtic embroiled within the chaos of the Premiership.
“He is not truly a goal man,” mentioned O’Neill. “He is not the John Hartson kind.
“He’s fast and he is agile and needs to show himself. However when you suppose he is the fast reply to any downside we’ve got, I am unsure I need to throw that type of duty on him.”
Cvancara’s first task in Scotland is more likely to be a go to to leaders Hearts on Sunday, a recreation completely stacked with stress for the defending champions.
