Celtic’s best striker since Larsson is now playing in the Australian third level

Celtic The supporters have been happy over the years by a large number of high classes in Parkhead.
Right now, Daizen Maeda is a top scorer in the team, takes it 52 goals for the clubComing in just 145 appearances, during Saturday’s defeat on the Easter path against Hibernian.
Meanwhile, one of the best rolling strikers in the last decades, at the age of 34, has found himself in a football desert despite some comparisons with great Henry Larsson.
According to the vote of supporters conducted in 2002Larsson is Celtic’s best foreign player, and numbers underline why.
The Swede achieved an outstanding 224 goals in 292 games For the club between 1997 and 2004, winning four league titles, four domestic Cups and reaching the UEFA Cup final in 2003.
Graham Ruthven, speaking of Football 101 PodcastHe described Larsson as “legitimately one of the best attackers in the world,” adding that a player of such a talent “will never” stay in Scotland as long as he does these days, believing that he has seen the best player of Scottish football in the post-SPL era; 1998 to the present.
Given his legacy, any Celtic central forward that hits a little form He surrenders The “Best Larsson striker” tag, so let’s evaluate the club’s best evaluation center in Era Post-Llasson.
Celtic Strikers 2004-day (at least 50 goals) |
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Players |
Year |
Games |
Goals |
Helping |
Min per goal |
Griffiths |
2014-22 |
262 |
123 |
51 |
118 |
Édouard |
2017-21 |
179 |
87 |
38 |
140 |
Kyōgo |
2021-25 |
165 |
85 |
19 |
126 |
Cooper |
2010-13 |
138 |
82 |
30 |
136 |
Stokes |
2010-16 |
192 |
76 |
62 |
172 |
McDonald |
2007-10 |
121 |
59 |
18 |
159 |
Maeda |
2022-day |
145 |
52 |
25 |
194 |
Dembélé |
2016-18 |
94 |
51 |
18 |
121 |
His strike in Leith over the weekend has taken Maeda one of Moussa Dembélé in this rank, still 33 goals of his compatriot’s shy Kyōgo, while a player with the most goals and the best minutes per goal post-classson can currently be found in a football desert.
Former Celtic striker now in Australian lower leagues
As the top table states, Leigh Griffiths is Celtic the highest scorer of Larsson, a net 123 times for the club between 2014 and 2022, and his time in Glasgow was the least event.
The attacker joined the club from Wolverhampton Wanderers For the 1 million pounds reported In January 2014, scoring Seven goals in only 13 Premiere He appeared during his first half -season at Parkhead.
He he described Former Scottish striker Billy Dodds as a “natural finisher”, but while the goals of the tekli, the controversy were almost as common.
Griffiths was charges uefa for ‘provoking viewers’ during a Champions League A qualifying victory over Linfield in Belfast, biting a goal scarf. He He was also fined SFA for racist singing in Edinburgh’s pub, before disciplined internal Celtic to violate Coid-19 lock rules, only a few.
In spite of everything, he won the whole nation by achieving two, almost identical free kicks For Scotland against the ‘Auld enemy’ of England in Hampden in June 2017.
Still, following Ange postecoglouThe appointment for the Celtic manager in the summer of 2022, Griffiths’s contract expired, but after a very short magic in Falkirk, he found a home below.
Now the 34-year-old, the striker plays for Mandurah City, headquartered in Western Australia, who, who West State League Division 1, part of the third level.
The statistics of achieving goals are hard to find, believe us when we say we tried, but we know that Griffiths Now the player coach In dolphins, so it’s good to see how a talented player found a home and enjoys his career.