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Best athletes you've seen playing for Celtic

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  1. 88jimmij88

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  2. 88jimmij88

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    Fastest sprinter: Olly Burke
    Sprints the most: Maeda
    Acceleration: Jamesy
    Leaps like a salmon: The King of Kings
    Strongest: Bobo's gonny get ye
    Marathon man: Agathe
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhere: Stan Petrov
     
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    I'd agree with above with forrest
    Defo henrik. The amount of headers he scored was unreal
    Bobo. Duh
    Stan petrov
    Chris Sutton purely coz he literally played everywhere. Striker. Defender. Goalie if needed
     
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  4. JML67 Gold Member Gold Member

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    Fastest sprinter: Maeda
    Sprints the most: Maeda
    Acceleration from a standing start: Agathe
    Leaps like a salmon: Henrik
    Strongest: Wanyama or Bobo
    Marathon man: McGregor
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhere: Kayal
     
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  6. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Fastest sprinter: Agathe (and it’s not even close)
    Sprints the most: Maeda
    Acceleration from a standing start: Bellamy
    Leaps like a salmon: Henke
    Strongest: Bobo
    Marathon man: GT3
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhere: Christie would be up there. Also can’t discount Daizen.
     
  7. blackfish Screaming from beneath the waves...

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    The fastest player I have seen with the ball under control at his feet was Craig Bellamy
     
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    Fastest sprinter:Agathe
    Sprints the most:Maeda
    Acceleration from a standing start:Agathe
    Leaps like a salmon:Henrique
    Strongest:Willo Flood
    Marathon man:McGregor
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhereb - Petrov
     
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    Fastest sprinter:Agathe
    Sprints the most: Agathe
    Acceleration from a standing start:Agathe

    Can't see how the top three aren't anything but him tbh

    Leaps like a salmon: Larsson
    Strongest: Bobo
    Marathon man: McGregor
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhere - Petrov
     
  10. PaddyJamieson

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    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
    Willo Flood
     
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    Honourable mention to Du Wei
     
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    Certainly had something of the salmon about him the big man.
     
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    Honourable mention to John Collins too. Possibly our most professional player.
     
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    Fastest sprinter: cha du rai..broke a few sprinting records as well
    Sprints the most: maeda
    Acceleration: Maeda
    Leaps like a salmon: van hooijdonk
    Strongest: Bobo Balde. (Athletic was John Collins!)
    Marathon man: Agathe
    He's here, he's there, he's f***in everywhere:
    Brown in his prime
     
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    Oli Burke is far and away one of the best atetes, rapid, big and strong. Pity about the football ability.
     
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    Aye, he could run like a racehorse. Pity he kicked the ball like he had hooves.
     
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    Never seen anyone like Agathe for Celtic, Iv seen Maeda lose sprints or be matched in the spl. Agathe used to burn players easily at CL level.

    Sometimes someone would “overhit” a through ball and you would think he would never get there but inevitably he did

    Acceleration has to be Frimpong though he was insane
     
  20. PaulM1888 Moderator Moderator Gold Member

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    Folk call guys like Maeda, Bellamy, Frimpong and Burke ‘rapid’.

    Agathe would honestly starch every single one of them on a football pitch. It had to be seen to be believed how quick the guy was either knocking it past people with a 5 yard head start and leaving them for dead or making a last ditch tackle he had no right to from nowhere. It’s hard to describe but over the space of maybe 10 to 15 yards from a rolling start not a single player could live with his pace, he just nonchalantly floated past people.