Celtic hit jackpot by selling ‘best of Larsson’ now in PL exile

After seeing their Champions League campaign abruptly on Tuesday night, Will Celtic Return to winning ways on Saturday?

Hoops, which never won a a Champions League The knockout phase before their history, approached the famous Bavaria victory, 1-0 up the night, pulling it back to 2-2 to the aggregate, only to suffer the heart crack of the bowel exactly at death, built 3-2 Bayern Munich.

Thus, attention is turned to attempt to secure six tons in just nine seasons, facing Hibernian on Easter Road at the early beginning of Saturday, but at the top of Humongous 13 points is clear at the top Scotland Prime Minister.

So, although Celtic fans and players are largely, who are currently loved by life, one favorite fans of former fans is not south of the border.

Celtic best attackers in the last decade

Daizen MaedaThe recent pattern earned widespread reviews, with teammate Alistair Johnston describing him as “One of the players in Europe in the most serious forms.”

This is because the Japanese striker reached 11 times from the boxing day, taking his 51 goals in 144 appearances For the club total, since arriving in January 2022.

Meanwhile, after being against Slovan Bratislava, Borussia Dortmund, Club Brugge and then Bayern Munich in Europe this season, Maeda has become the first Celtic player since since Joe Craig 47 years ago to score four or more goals in one Champions League campaign.

As much as the good Maeda may be, he will never exceed the legacy left by Henry Larsson, widely considered Celtic -The best player of the modern era.

Larsson scored a hit 224 goals in 292 games For Celtics between 1997 and 2004, reaching average every 113 minutes, before heading to Barcelona, ​​helping the Catalan giants win the Champions League in 2006.

Speaking o Football 101 Podcast, Graham RuthvenHe believes Larsson saw the best player of Scottish football in the post-SPL Eri (1998 onwards), describing him as “legitimately one of the best attackers in the world,” which, he adds that “never happened” in the Premiership.

So, let’s compare Larsson with some of the best Celtic central centers of more modern times.

As the table shows, none of the attackers who have come since they have scored more goals, nor has registered a better ratio of minutes by goal than Larsson.

Fast forward to this day, one of the attackers involved in the table, which is currently 27 years old, once marked the best of Larsson, does not enjoy the season to remember.

Former Celtic striker in the Premier League Exile

Odsonne édouard Initially arrived at Celtic on loan of Paris Saint-Germain in 2017, but it is impressed so that the hoops were convinced that they were spending a then a record of £ 8 million permanently provide your services.

Martin O’Neill, who was a manager over the years of glory of the beginning of the 2000s, stated that he believed Édouard to be a Celtic “Larson’s best striker”.

Gently known as a French vortex, scored 87 goals in 179 appearances for the hoops, before they are sold in Crystal Palace for £ 14 million in August 2021.

Well, his career in southern London couldn’t start much better, she twice scored a bench at her debut while the Eagles in Selhurst beat Tottenham 3-0.

Édouard has achieved a stable but non -pecticular six, seven and then eight goals During his three seasons in Palace but was considered excess to demands per Oliver Glasner Last summer, given Jean-Philippe Matetaa red hot shape and After arriving of Eddie nketiiah.

The Frenchman was allowed to join Leicester City on loan, but this move, that John Percy from the Telegraph describes as ‘shame’, certainly failed, and édouard made only Six appearances For foxes, a total of 113 minutes, not even on the bench, not even called for 13 of their last 14 Premier League items, the most beautiful are on November 10th.

FIFA rules determine that The player can only play for two clubs in one season, so, given that the striker had twice in August twice for Palace, before making a move, he could not be registered by a third club.

However, to shorten the long story, Because the MLS Summer LeagueTheir equivalent of next season begins this weekend, so Atlanta United He allegedly offered £ 15m for Édouard in January, but this move did not reach it, and he remained in exile, outside the picture in Leicester and could not appear for anyone else.

Celtic supporters will be sad when they see that it is unclear édouard ended, but it suggests that they were right to bring £ 14m in the amount of £ 14m, since his status has certainly fallen in recent years.