Klas Act Returns To The Reebok
Posted on: Wed 04 Aug 2010
Ivan Klasnic has made a return to the Reebok Stadium after Bolton Wanderers completed the permanent signing of the Croatian striker.
The 30-year-old, who enjoyed a successful spell with the Whites last season, has put pen to paper on a two-year contract having joined on a free transfer.
"I'm really pleased to be here now that everything is done," Klasnic told the official website.
"I spoke to the manager - he wants to work with me and I want to work with him. It was an easy decision to come back to Bolton."
Whilst on loan, Klasnic enjoyed a fruitful first season in English football, scoring eight goals in the Barclays Premier League in the 2009/10 campaign.
Indeed, the fans favourite was never on the losing side whenever he found the net for Bolton, with strikes against Everton, West Ham United and Birmingham City all helping register important victories on home soil.
At the end of his loan deal, Klasnic returned to parent club Nantes, however he was free to move back to Bolton after cancelling his contract with the French side earlier in the week.
Having built his reputation in German football with St Pauli in the late 1990s, Klasnic moved to Werder Bremen where he stayed for seven seasons.
The Hamburg-born frontman helped them win the Bundesliga during the 2003/04 campaign and the following season had his first taste of Champions League football, in which he scored five goals in the group stage for Werder.
The vastly experienced frontman has also found the net on 11 occasions for Croatia in 38 appearances, with two of those strikes coming against Poland and Turkey at the European Championships in 2004.
Klasnic becomes the fourth player to move to Bolton in the summer transfer window following the recruitment of Martin Petrov, Robbie Blake and Marcos Alonso.
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