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Fullname: Maryan Vasylyovych Shved
aka: Maryan Shved, Marian Shved
Born: 16 Jul 1997
Birthplace: Mukolaiv, Ukraine
Signed: 31 Jan 2019 (from Karpaty Lviv for est 2m); 1 June 2019 (back from loan)
Loans: 31 Jan 2019-1 June 2019 (send back on loan to Karpaty Lviv); Aug 2020 to Jul 2021 (to KV Mechelen of Belgium)
Left: 23 July 2021 (to KV Mechelen)
Position: Right-winger, Midfielder
Debut: Kalju 0-2 Celtic, European Cup, 30 July 2019 (sub, and scored)
Squad No.: 20
Internationals: Ukraine
International Caps: 2 [complete at end of career]
International Goals: 0 [complete at end of career]
Biog
The first Ukrainian player at Celtic, he was signed in Jan 2019, but was to spend the next half season back on loan at his old club. At his old club, Karpaty Lviv, he had an excellent record in terms of goals, and on paper at least, it appeared that Celtic might have a gem on their hands. It wasn’t to be so easy. He was one of Brendan Rodgers last signings, and soon after Shved’s signing, Rodgers left Celtic as manager with Neil Lennon taking over.
Once at Celtic, he got off the starting blocks in style, scoring a cracking injury time goal in his debut in a European Cup qualifier v Kalju which made all the headlines. He was subbed on and scored when the ball broke to him and he smashed a left foot shot into the top right hand corner, a powerful injury-time strike. Admittedly easy competition, but still it boded very well and players have to start from somewhere.
Yet it all soon practically ground to a halt! He won domestic matchtime only twice for Celtic in the important 2019/20 season as Celtic aimed for nine-in-a-row and the fourth treble in a row. He played in a 6-0 victory over Ross County in October 2019 and then made an appearance against lowly Clyde in February 2020 in a 3-0 win in the Scottish Cup. Both times coming on as sub late on, so little time to make a name.
So unlike back in Ukraine, he never scored for Celtic domestically that season. Frustrating for him, and his name was regularly raised by supporters for what was happening to him? It was expected that he would make a good impression. There were reports that as this was his first sojourn abroad, he was struggling to settle in and this was hampering his efforts, due to language and other factors. As the coronavirus hit in March 2020, it ended the season prematurely and ended further chances to reboot his season at Celtic.
The problem for Shved was despite some hiccups during the first half of the season, Celtic were on a good role, winning the league & league cup (Scottish Cup final was postponed to December 2020 for completion of the fourth treble). Forrest and Elynoussi were having good seasons on the wings, and Christie, Brown, Ntcham and McGregor were mainstays in the midfield. In attack, Edouard was the unassailable main man. So this cut opportunities to bring him in to the first team.
Maryan Shved likely just needed more gametime to settle in, but the squad was little changed for the next season, and other options were needed to be looked at. Celtic manager Neil Lennon had spoken positively of him to make an impact, yet in the early matches in the new season (2020/21), Maryan Shved was not used in the friendlies and the support in general had mostly forgotten him.
There were reports that he had impressed in training, but maybe some early hype & expectations were found to be a bit overdone. There were never any negative reports on him personally or in any of his matches, so on a personal level it was disappointing to see this signing not working out to date.
He reflected well in a future retrospective on his time at Celtic:
“Maybe I made some mistakes, but if I had to go back to that time, I would have made the same decision because it was a great experience and it was good for my career. When I was transferred to Celtic, it was a step ahead for me. I think a lot about this club only in good, positive things. I liked it. I liked the city, the supporters. Celtic is a big club and it helped me in every detail. I have only positive things to say about them.”
Away on loan
In August 2020, Marian Shved joined Belgian club, KV Mechelen, on a season-long loan, subject to international clearance. With the purchase of Ajeti and Klimala making some headway, Maryan Shved was further down the pecking order for first team roles. It likely made sense fore his own career to look elsewhere for gametime.
His new loan manager at Belgium stated interestingly:
“He’s a shy guy and we are going to have to take him under our wing a bit”.
Maryan Shved missed a disastrous season for Celtic in 2020/21, and at the end of his loan season much had changed at Celtic with many players gone or going, and a new manager in Ange Postecoglu arriving to take over. There was a growing consensus that Neil Lennon had done a poor job with player development, so Maryan Shved can be argued to have been another to have suffered, and the loan time away was likely better for himself than if he had stayed that season.
So was Maryan Shved another failed Brendan Rodgers signing? The question can’t be skated over despite all the shambles in the Neil Lennon era. It clearly was, but in some ways it wasn’t Maryan Shved alone that was the problem. As Ajeti was brought in and was seen as a failed signing for the 2020/21 season, maybe it proved further the coaches were wrong to overlook Shved. One goal from the bench in three games was a fair start, and proved he deserved further opportunities.
On the other hand, Maryan Shved was brought up by sympathisers to Brendan Rodgers in the belief that the player was foisted on him by the club management against his wishes. Some adding this transfer was one of various issues for his suprise departure as manager down to Leicester.
Maryan Shved completed a permanent move to KV Mechelen (Belgium) in July 2021, and we wished him all the best.
Post-Celtic
After only one season at KV Mechelen in a permanent role, he signed for Shaktar Donestk in August 2022. By coincidence, Shaktar Donestk were facing Celtic in the Champions League group stages with the away match being played in Warsaw (Poland) due to the ongoing war in Ukraine following the Russian invasion. He made quite a mark, scoring twice for Shaktar in the opening group game v Leipzig to help them to a shock 4-1 away result. It came coincidentally at the same time that his former manager Brendan Rodgers was on the verge of being sacked at Leicester (he survived for a number of months, and then returned to Celtic at the end of the season).
To repeat an annoying pattern for Celtic, Shved did actually score in the away 1-1 draw v Celtic but thankfully the goal was chalked off for offside.
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Quotes
“I’m very proud to be here and even prouder as a Ukrainian to be the first player from my country to sign for Celtic, particularly with what that means for football in Ukraine. So I’m going to do my absolute best to be an example for Ukrainian footballers and open up a door for them.”
Maryan Shved (2019)
Playing Career
(only played match in one season)
| APPEARANCES | LEAGUE | SCOTTISH CUP | LEAGUE CUP | EUROPE | TOTAL |
| 2019-20 | (1) | (1) | – | (1) | (3) |
| Goals | 0 | 0 | – | 1 | 1 |
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Marian Shved: A ‘slow-burner’, but Neil Lennon is tipping Celtic winger to explode onto Scottish football scene
Published: 22:30 Sunday 12 January 2020
Marian Shved, the Ukrainian winger who has hardly featured since signing for Celtic last January, has been tipped to “explode” onto the Scottish football scene in the second half of the season after blowing his manager Neil Lennon away in training last week.
Shved scored a spectacular last-minute goal for the Glasgow club on his first team debut in the Champions League qualifier against Nomme Kalju in Estonia back in July.
But since then the 22-year-old has only played once for the Parkhead club as a second-half substitute in a Ladbrokes Premiership match against Ross County in Dingwall in October.
Lennon, though, admitted he had been greatly impressed with the former Karpaty Lviv player during the treble treble winners’ winter training camp in Dubai.
It would be timely if Shved, of whom so much has been expected by Celtic supporters since his Kalju strike, finally comes to the fore as Ryan Christie and Mikey Johnston are out injured and Scott Sinclair has departed for Preston North End.
“He’s doing good,” said Lennon as he looked back on the trip to the Middle East. “He’s training well. He’s looking lively and has been a wee bit of a bonus this week.
“It’s an opportunity to just explode onto it. He’s looked very healthy and I’ve been pleased with him. It’s not easy for guys to adapt sometimes, especially if family is not there as well.
“He’s a bit of a slow burner, but he’s still young and I’ve really liked what I have seen of him. He’s been good.”
Shved has his work cut out replacing James Forrest, who has scored 14 goals in the 2019/20 campaign, in Lennon’s team given his club’s mates rich vein of form.
The Northern Irishman, whose team take on Partick Thistle in the fourth round of the William Hill Scottish Cup on, admitted he may try to sign another right-sided forward during the January transfer window. “We’ll have to look at maybe bringing someone in as well,” he said.
£2m CELT REVEALS WHY HE IS FROZEN OUT
By CQN Magazine on 26th March 2020 Latest News
FORGOTTEN £2million signing Marion Shved has revealed why he cannot get a first-team game for Celtic – his team-mates are TOO good!
The Ukrainian winger was Brendan Rodgers’ last signing for the Hoops in January 2019 when he agreed a move from Karpaty Lviv.
He was immediately loaned back to his homeland club until the end of their season and he has made just three appearances since Neil Lennon took over in February last year.
His brief cameo appearance in the 3-0 Scottish Cup win over League One part-timers Clyde at Broadwood in January was his first sighting for months.
Lviv sports director Oleg Smaliychuk, speaking to the Daily Record, said: “Marian has very strong qualities as a player and as a person. He never looks for excuses.
“If you asked 99 per cent of Ukrainian players why they weren’t playing, they would say the manager is bad, their agent was rubbish, or the pitch isn’t good enough. Anything.
“But when I asked Marian about Celtic he just told me he was trying as hard as he possibly could, but there are so many good players at Celtic. He told me they are a big club and have an excellent selection of players.
“When the time came for him to move, he had an offer from Belgium, too. I gave him a list of pros and cons of moving to Genk or Celtic and told him to make a decision, along with his father.
“I thought he made the right choice, but how was he to know Brendan Rodgers would leave straight away. Celtic were also going to loan him to another club in Scotland, but changed their minds.
“Genk actually offered more money than Celtic, but we gave him the choice and he chose Celtic. Looking back and knowing what we know now, he may have made the wrong choice.”
Shved, 22, is under contract until June 2023 and still insists he has a future at the champions – if he is given the chance.
Marian Shved – “He’s a shy guy” notes Belgian Boss
By Editor 18 August, 2020 No Comments
MARIAN SHVED seems to have made a favourable early impression on Wouter Vrancken, the manager of Mechelen. The Celtic winger joined the Belgian side last week on a season long loan deal after the Ukrainian winger failed to break into the Celtic side last season. Shved was also surplus to requirements this season at Celtic and joins a growing list of fringe players such as Bayo, Jack Hendry and Lee O’Connor who have gone out on loan to get more first team football.
Signing the Celtic wide-bhoy seems to have pleased Vrancken, who has been speaking in glowing terms about his new signing.
“Let’s be honest here, Marian Shved is an outstanding talent who would not normally choose to play for a club like Mechelen,” the Belgian side’s manager told Daily Record.
“But because he hardly played at all last season, he wants to relaunch his career with us. He will bring us a real injection of quality to this club.
“He’s a shy guy and we are going to have to take him under our wing a bit, but he will soon get to know his new team mates. He will need time though because he’s barely played at all last season and was training on his own.
“But I can immediately see that the boy can play, he can speed up play when needed or hold onto the ball.
“He’s an excellent addition to the squad and we are lucky to have him.”
Hayes, Bayo and Shved celebrate a goal in the Scottish Cup match against Clyde back in February. All three have left the club now, Hayes to sign for Aberdeen and the other two out on season long loan deals.
The headline on Daily Record reads “Marian Shved transfer surprise as Celtic flop hailed as an ‘outstanding talent’” but everyone who has watched the player on those impressive YouTube videos knows he’s a decent player.
What is perhaps more telling is that Wouter Vrancken made particular reference to Shved being ‘a shy guy” and accepts that they will have to fork on that and try to integrate him into their squad. Only then will they get the best out of the player.
Do you think Celtic didn’t try to do this? The difficulty that Shved had in integrating into the Celtic squad was a constant source of frustration for the Celtic coaches and eventually the decision was taken to send him out on loan to see if that can help. If Vrancken can succeed in doing that he could be doing Celtic a massive favour.
Neither Hendry or Bayo look like having any future as Celtic players, while the jury is still out on Irish international Lee O’Connor who yesterday completed his move to Tranmere. Shved might find his way in Belgium and come back ready to play at Celtic next season.
Fingers crossed.
Neil Lennon , from 23rd August 2020
Neil Lennon reveals Marian Shved’s frustration as he challenges winger to improve
The winger scored on his debut but has slipped out of the first team reckoning
Neil Lennon has laid down a marker to winger Marian Shved saying that he has to improve or he will remain out of the team.
Fans have taken to social media to question the decision to have Lewis Morgan in squads after the Ukrainian made such an auspicious start after scoring a wonder goal against Nomme Kalju.
The Celtic manager made it clear that he rates Shved but that a period of transition in his new homeland will have to include an upped workrate.
Lennon said: “A little bit frustrated, he just needs to up his tempo and his work.”
“It’s still, again, an adaptation period for him. He’s 21, in a new country and doesn’t speak great English.
“So, we know we’ve got a good player on our hands and we’ll see more of him as the season progresses.”
Mechelen boss Wouter Vrancken has delivered an incredible attack on Marvin Shved (Dec 2020)
“I don’t feel like I should be wasting my time on him anymore. The players and staff have done everything they can to include Shved in the squad, but he puts himself above the group.
He regularly arrives late and even pretends not to be here. The staff and the players have talked to him several times. I spoke to him in private, I also addressed him in the group but we haven’t got a response.
Well, it stops now. If he wants to be a loner, he can. Go play billiards for the rest of his life or something. He doesn’t want to belong in this group where everyone jumps through fires for each other.
He is introverted, but his arrogance makes it worse. There are many players in football who have not got the best out of their career, despite all their talents.
And the way Shved is going, this will happen to him too. If these comments get a response from him and make something click in his head, then so much the better and we will have a high-quality player on our hands but if it doesn’t then he won’t play. I cannot accept he puts himself above the rest of the squad.”
Marian Shved leaves Celtic as Mechelen snap up winger on permanent transfer to end Parkhead limbo
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Ukrainian winger Marian Shved has left Celtic after two-and-a-half years of Parkhead limbo.
Loan club KV Mechelen in Belgium have opted to sign the 24-year-old permanently, penning a deal until 2024.
The wide man joined in January 2019 under Brendan Rodgers and his then-boss didn’t seem too enamoured with the transfer, insisting the club already had “a million wingers”.
But he came with a solid track record with an impressive goal haul at Karpaty Lviv marking him out as one of the country’s best young talents.
Shved however was never able to kick on in Glasgow’s east end and a year later was sent back on loan to the Ukrainian Premier League side.
That was followed by a loan to Mechelen last season where he initially failed to settle too.
His manager in a bizarre outburst suggested Shved should play “billiards” instead before a storming turn of form towards the end of the campaign changed his fortunes.
Given he still had a year remaining on his Celtic deal, Ange Postecoglou will have received a small transfer fee to go towards his continuing summer rebuild.
Marian Shved slams Neil Lennon’s broken Celtic promise as flop makes Champions League vow
Craig Swan – Yesterday 22:30
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/sport/american-football/marian-shved-slams-neil-lennon-e2-80-99s-broken-celtic-promise-as-flop-makes-champions-league-vow/ar-AA11N5Pr
Marian Shved says a broken promise from Neil Lennon ruined his chance to make a proper mark at Celtic.
Ahead of Wednesday’s reunion, the Shakhtar Donetsk star has lifted the lid on the frustrations he felt at the old boss’ failure to give him a genuine Parkhead chance. Shved signed in January 2019 when Brendan Rodgers was the manager, yet even his lukewarm response to the transfer didn’t bode well and he was immediately loaned back to Karpaty Lviv
By the time he got to Glasgow in the summer, Rodgers had already jumped ship for Leicester and things barely got better. He scored on debut against Nomme Kalju, but made just two more appearances as he was stuck on the sidelines by Lennon. In Warsaw, it’s not a case of Shved settling scores with Celtic. The winger is not bitter. He enjoyed his overall club experience too much to think in those terms. However, that does not mean Shved won’t be motivated to show that he was worthy of the opportunities he says he was promised by Lennon and didn’t get.
Shved explained: “I remember once I sat with the coach and the president ( Peter Lawwell ) to discuss the situation because I hadn’t played in maybe half a year. The coach said, ‘Yes, of course, I think I will give you chances to play’.
“We shook hands together, but after this I didn’t play in the team. Celtic at this time had very good results. All the time they were winning. The president supported me. That’s very true. Maybe the president couldn’t say anything to the coach because they had good results. Maybe that is why there was no change. It was still frustrating. I was training very well and tried to show that I could play but it didn’t happen. The problem is that he (Lennon) promised me, but nothing happened and nothing changed.”
Shved’s lack of action doesn’t lead to regrets about his decision to join Celtic as he explained: “It happened, so you can’t change anything. It was only the decision of the coach. It wasn’t a decision of the club or the supporters, but it’s difficult to say how this happened. I knew the coach had changed. It doesn’t matter who is the new coach, when you go to a new team you have to show your best conditions in training.
“Of course, maybe if it was another coach, it would have been a different situation. Maybe I would have played more often but it’s happened. Now it’s history. Celtic is a really big club and, when the coach and the club wanted to make the transfer happen, it was okay.
“Maybe I made some mistakes, but if I had to go back to that time, I would have made the same decision because it was a great experience and it was good for my career. When I was transferred to Celtic, it was a step ahead for me. I think a lot about this club only in good, positive things.
“I liked it. I liked the city, the supporters. Celtic is a big club and it helped me in every detail. I have only positive things to say about them.” Despite his enjoyment of the surroundings, the lack of playing time had to change. The 25-year-old moved to Mechelen on loan and eventually joined the Belgians permanently before returning to his native Ukraine in the summer to join Shakhtar.
During his time in Glasgow, he’d lunch with neighbours such as Moritz Bauer and Boli Bolingoli, but now he’s gorging at Europe’s top table. Once labelled a spectacular talent, Shved has now displayed it at the very highest level.
Two goals against RB Leipzig last week helped him and his team make an incredible Group F statement as they demolished the Germans on their own soil.
Shved said: “It was a surprise for everyone, but we deserved to win. Maybe Leipzig controlled the game, but we played with our hearts.
“This is the Champions League. We play against Celtic, Real Madrid and Leipzig. These are our opponents. “We will try to beat them, that’s our key goal and we will do everything to achieve that.”
The words tell you this is big for Shved. It’s big for his club and it’s big for his county. Shakhtar have been nomads for eight years due to conflict. Unable to play in their own stadium.
But Shved had no hesitation to sign as he said: “My family live in a place where it is safe and normal. Of course, when the war started, it was something I was worried about, but now it is okay.
“We have a lot of people from different parts of Ukraine who support us. They come from Donetsk, Kharkiv, Lviv, Kiev and other cities and we feel this support.
“We are not only a club from one city, we represent Ukraine in this match and we play for Ukraine. It’s very difficult because we know we have a lot of transfers between the matches, but we think about winning. We play for our country and for our people. We fight on the pitch the same as our defenders [army] do.
“When you go to the pitch you have to concentrate on the football. For us that is very important.”
For now, that concentration is focused on Celtic and the chance to make another major statement at Europe’s highest level.
Shved said: “I played at Celtic, of course. That’s why this game means something specific to me. But it’s also a game like the others because it’s a very important one for the team. It’s the Champions League and we understand the level of this match.”