Celtic sun kammala saye dan wasan tsakiya dan Jamus Mika Baur daga Paderborn da farashi da ba a bayyana ba, inda dan wasa mai shekara 22 ya rattaba hannu kan kwantiragin shekara hudu da zaɓin ƙarin shekara ɗaya.

Baur ya zo bayan da ya taka muhimmiyar rawa wajen dawowar Paderborn zuwa Bundesliga bayan shekara shida. Paderborn sun ƙare a matsayi na uku a rabo na biyu a kakar da ta gabata kafin su doke Wolfsburg a wasan neman ci gaba — yaƙi da Baur ya samu kwallaye 4 da taimakawa 6 a wasanni 36.

Dan wasan ƙwallon ƙafa daga gidan handball

An haifi Baur a Salem, kuma ya fara aikinsa na manya a Freiburg, inda ya buga wa ƙungiyar ajiyar kafin ya koma Paderborn shekara biyu da suka wuce. Kafin kakarsa ta ban mamaki, an aro shi zuwa Dynamo Dresden, inda ya taimaka wa ƙungiyar hawa zuwa Bundesliga 2 — gogewa da ya bayyana a matsayin juyi a ci gaban sa.

Baur ya ambaci tasirin wani koci na tunani da zuwan babban koci Ralf Kettemann a matsayin ƙarin dalilan haɓakarsa. Bayan ya fara aikinsa a matsayin winger sannan ɗan wasan tsakiya mai kai hari, ya zama mahimmin mai tsara wasan a zurfi — rawa da ta sa aka kwatanta shi da Nicolas Raskin na Rangers — kuma ya taimaka wajen kai Paderborn babbar nasara tun farkon ƙarni.

Mahaifinsa, Markus Baur, ƙwararren dan wasan handball ne wanda ya buga wasanni 228 wa Jamus, inda ya lashe azurfa ta Olimpics a Athens a 2004 da zinariya ta gasar duniya a 2007. Mika ya zaɓi wata hanya daban, kuma tun daga lokacin ya wakilci Jamus a kowace matakin ƙasa a ƙarƙashin shekara 21.

Ido kan ƙungiyar babban matakin

Mataki na zuwa Celtic babban ƙoƙari ne. Baur zai iya kasancewa a Paderborn don yin gwajin Bundesliga a karon farko, ko kuma neman ƙungiyar Jamus ta babban fanni. A maimakon haka, yana tafiya Scotland da buri na shiga ƙungiyar babbar ƙasa ta Jamus da kuma tabbatar da kansa a mafi girman matakin ƙwallon ƙafa na Turai.