Celtic secured its biggest offer from Maeda in “Amazing” Star

This could be the end of the European road for Celtic This season, but it certainly has a lot of positive results.

On Tuesday night, the hoops are heartbroken out of Champions League Author Bayern Munich, leading 1-0 in Bavaria, thanks to the cold end of Nicolas Kühn, only to give up in the 94th minute, cruelly crashed

Lots of Celts The stars took praiseBut one was particularly extraordinary, he underwent why he was considered so good by signing.

Daizen Maeda: Celtics’ signing of offer

Arrived from Yokoham F. Marinos in January 2022 for only £ 1.6 million,, Daizen Maeda It must be worse as one of the best Celtic signing of all time for money.

Japanese striker has now scored a hit 51 goals in 144 appearances For the club, after a recent hat-trick over Raith Rovers, before he also headed home against Bayern Munich from close range during the first Wednesday at Parkhead.

After discovering the goal against Slovan Bratislava, Borussia Dortmund and Club Brugge during the League phase, Maeda became the first Celtic player since that since that Joe Craig 1977/78 to achieve four or more goals in one European Cup campaign.

IN Intervention yearsLegends such as MO Johnston, Henrik Larsson, Chris Sutton, Kenny Miller, Georgios Samaras and Moussa Dembélé, as well as Adam Idah and Kühn this season, they all reached three.

Considering that Maeda scored 11 goals at all competitions from boxing day, now on 22 goals for the season, right back Alistair Johnston Described him as “One of the players in Europe in the most serious forms.” This is an honest estimate.

However, one of Maed’s teammates up at the other end of the park, which arrived for free, might just surpass it.

Celtic Biggest offer from Maeda

Like Kasper Schmeichel Joined Celtica last summerFilling in the gap left by former Manchester City colleague Joe HartMaybe there was a fear of the wisdom of replacing one goalie veterans to another.

As it happened, as he noted Graeme McGarry from HeraldHe was “extraordinary” since he arrived at Glasgow, and the 38-year-old looked at home in green and white hoops.

In this season’s Champions League, at the time of writing, Just one goalkeeperSpecifically, Peter Vindahl Jensen of Sparta Prague made more savings than Schmeichel’s 38, only two faced more than his 54 shots on the target, and Danish international shot recorded the XG character of 17.3, which is a sum they just hit three Guardians.

Equally, First and ranked and ranked In the Premiership to save the percentage (85.5%) and clean leaves (19), on a course to break a clean list on top of the division record 25set up Rangers four seasons ago – a record that stopped 115 years Before that.

So, let’s see how his statistics are compared to the Celtic Best Gun of the recent past.

As the drawing table, Schmeichel boasts the best percentage of pure sheet metal and the highest percentage of the selected goalkeepers, even if, of course, his sample size is significantly smaller, he is on his way to being better than all previous trio.

Days – which has recently been Awarded with a new contract – He was especially in his great best in Bavaria, because he was so unhappy that he gave up after his death after the initial stunning reaction.

Speaking CHAPTER COPE COPS CBS SPORTSFormer Man City defender Micah Richards marked Schmeicichel’s account in Munich as “amazing” and “upper draw”, with Robbie Hanratty of Herlanda Noticing that he made ‘nine impressive savings’ while George O’Neill from BBC Sport She believes the goalkeeper ‘made heroes’.

So, despite its veteran status, by signing Schmeichel to free transfer from Anderlecht, Celtic absolutely hit gold.