Abdallah Sima’s breakthrough came at Slavia Prague, where his 2020-2021 league season remains the sharpest spell of his senior career: 11 goals in 21 appearances. It was enough to push him quickly into the wider European market, with Brighton moving for him soon afterwards.
His time on Brighton’s books became a run of loans rather than a settled Premier League story. The most familiar stretch in Scotland came at Rangers, where he added pace and direct running to their front line and picked up a League Cup winner’s medal. Celtic supporters will not need that period dressed up any further.
Sima’s career has been one of early promise, a strong spell in Prague, and then the more uneven route of a forward trying to turn loans into a fixed place. His best return remains that Slavia season, and it is still the clearest marker of what he can offer when the fit is right.