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Jakub Jankto is Sparta’s big summer signing, after all, he has spent six seasons in Serie A and one in La Liga. In addition, he is still only 26 years old, they will get a representative at a suitable age. So far, however, Jankto has not been convinced, which I think is also the case with Spartan icon Martin Frýdek.
In the Italian Serie A, Jankta did very well, but last year they opted for a change. He exchanged the Apennine Peninsula for ten Pyrenees and left for Spain’s Getafe. But this engagement didn’t work out at all, initially he got injured for a long time and when he came back, he didn’t get into the lineup and sat on the bench for the whole spring.
And so he decided to return to the Czech Republic. At 26, quite a shocking step, especially for a player who spent the same amount of time abroad and left for Italy at the age of 18 from Slavia’s youth team.
There were different opinions about his arrival. Optimistic Sparta fans believed that Jankto is an above-standard player in our league and will be a great reinforcement. However, there were also a large number of skeptics, who did not believe that a player could help Sparta after any year’s recruitment.
For the time being, Jankto agrees with the second group. He came off the bench twice in wins against Olomouc and Boleslav, then started three times in the starting line-up and there were three draws. His individual performances are also bad, it doesn’t look like Jankto has 6 seasons in the top 5 leagues.
“When I saw him in the national team, he was filling the left wing, in Sparta it seems to me that he wants to play prankster. Instead of going down the line, he goes to the center,” evaluates Jankta in the program A straight line from Sport, Sparta legend Martin Frýdek.
“There was practically no knowledge of his deformity. Before the match with Zlín, the success rate of centers was only eighteen percent. That’s a scary number from a player with a wiped left,” adds the presenter of the program, Radek Šilhan.
“I want to believe that he can handle it and help, but he hasn’t shown it yet. To his apology, I must say that he was injured for a long time. So he has to get into it. But he hasn’t convinced me yet,” says Frydek.
He hasn’t scored a goal or an assist in five games so far, while Sparta didn’t play against teams fighting for the title, they played against Olomouc, Boleslav, Bohemians, Jablonec and Zlín. Especially after his performance against Zlín, Jankto was criticized a lot and coach Brian Priske withdrew him in the 64th minute.
Source: Sport