Best Striker at the Club?

Bang on quote. Griffiths finishing is brilliant but stokes link up play and holding the ball up means a lot of unselfish work outside the box.
The time to judge Griffiths may well be after a full season.

 

van dyk!

 

That list is an indictment of Lennon's failure to procure good strikers. Thank goodness for Commons. Stokes is the best of a bad lot.

 

Stokes at the moment since his record for us shows he is, will be interesting to see this season I think the thumb could have a fantastic season and also having Watt back will see us having a good forward line, would like us to add one more to them 3 and get rid of the rest.

 

Ability wise, Watt is the best but atm Stokes deserves to go into the new season as the first choice striker with Watt and Griffiths fighting it out (football wise) to play alongside him.

 

Stokes definitely

then griffiths

and then watt in this order, right now.. With a full season i'm sure watt could push the other two but stokes is right out in front amd deserves to be..

Good post that dev..

 

Tony Watt

 

I don't really see how anyone can argue against it being Stokes. He has been consistently very good for us in the four years he has been here.

He offers a lot more than Griffiths does I think. The only other striker that can better him, is Watt. He appeared to have everything to go on and become a top player for us in my opinion. There wasn't a part of his game that was lacking I didn't think, but unfortunately, it was away from the park that was holding him back it would seem.

I don't see any point in trying to make a case for Balde or Pukki. Both have been poor signings so far, although Pukki showed glimpses of a decent footballer near the end of the season. Balde, I don't think is good enough, and I don't think he ever will be if I'm honest.

Right now though, taking everything into consideration, Stokes is really the only one you could pick, and back it up I would say. None of the others have done enough in a Celtic jersey yet.

 

As a striker for scoring goals which is the main thing, it's got to be Griffiths.

Griffiths - 23 years old, 238 games, 118 goals.

Stokes - 25 years old, 282 games, 114 goals.

 

Definitely can't go on stats alone, Drogba by the age of 25 had only scored 32 league goals. At which point he signed for Marseille.

 

Would you take Boyd over Stokes?

 

Or Ally McCoist over Henrik Larsson?

 

Bit different from Stokes? Drogba came good in the game quite late, Stokes has been playing for years and was good when he was really young. Just didn't progress as much as he should or could have.

 

Which is why I'm stats are very misleading. The last is your opinion though, over the course of his career Stokes has progressed as a footballer rather than just a goalscorer, which is why I don't believe you can judge on goals or stats alone.

 

It's Stokes atm, but we can do so much better, hopefully someone is brought in. I'm still hoping Ronny says no to Griffiths, I don't like him in a Celtic jersey at all.

 

Stokes scored something like 16 goals in 18 appearances for Falkirk as a 17/18 year old in 2006/07, Robbie Keane when he came to us (almost at his peak as a player at the time) could only match that!

The immense tally at Falkirk wasn't even enough for Arsenal to give Stokes a chance when he came back and they sold him to Sunderland for £2m that January. We all know how that ended up, 4/5 goals in nearly 40 appearances in 2 and a half seasons.

Like I said, the progress from that young really promising teenager to now, hasn't quite happened like it could've.

 

What kind of move do you think Stokes would have got had we let his contract run down this season and he was a free agent?

He would have done no better than Huddersfield or Yeovil Town. That's his level and we have him as one of our main attackers, depressing.

 

Stokes is the best strikers out of the group as of this exact moment..... even though he's not really a striker.

 

That was at a very small spiel at a club, there have been plenty of players that have had that kind of form in there career, he certainly wasn't a Robbie Keane at 18 years old at Falkirk, despite having a similar record to a Keane in his peak at Celtic.

Pure speculation from you there, not fact. However it is a fact that in that period West Brom were taking a look at him.

 

It's really a toss up between stokes and griffiths. They're a couple of great strikers and are both getting a bit underrated.

I went for griffiths purely based on a style preference. I like strikers who are always chasing and closing down.