Some players walk through the doors at Celtic Park and the pressure hits them like a dose of the bends.
Sead Haksabanovic strolled up the steps and could sense that crushing weight of expectation and demand from a support who have grown used to stockpiling silverware. But the Montenegrin wide man felt right at home. Haksabanovic knows what is required in these parts, where trophies are demanded on tap and even victories have to be achieved with a certain style.
And that’s just fine with him. The 23-year-old has spent much of his career wanting Europe in search for his perfect fit. It hasn’t come easy. He was snapped up from his Swedish village as a kid by West Ham but couldn’t quite make the breakthrough. There were loan spells in Spain and in his homeland, a big-money move to Russia with Rubin Kazan that became complicated when global politics muscled their way in.
