Originally published at: Celtic summer signing Giakoumakis continues to prove worth after difficult start
As far as starts to a Celtic spell go, lacking a pre-season through injury like Giorgos Giakoumakis did has to be among the worst. Especially given how Giakoumakis alerted himself to Celtic and Ange Postecoglou. Last season, in a VVV-Venlo side that got relegated, he was the Dutch top-flight’s leading scorer, way ahead with 26…
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It might suggest (or highlight) that some of those who are continuing to doubt him simply aren’t up to the job of passing constructive comment based on all the factors that have made his move far from simple this Summer?
No pre season coming into a high energy side from a relegated team in Holland for starters.
Strikers need match time to improve their sharpness and timing in front of goal.
The goals he has scored as you correctly point out have been high quality finishes with a certain degree of difficulty in them all.
Yes he’s spurned a penalty chance and missed a couple of easier chances but the fact remains he’s been in those areas to be in a position to bury them?
The goals will come no danger he just needed game time that’s all.
Top scorer in Holland from the position of being the lead striker in a relegated team would seem to back this up.
Relegated teams tend to struggle to create chances and top goalscorers tend to come from the better more successful sides.
He gives us something the other strikers don’t in attack ,a big strong No9 who can lead a line and bring others into the game as well as giving us an aerial threat in the box.
I think if we can couple that with the pace and movement of the likes of Kyogo and Maeda then it bodes well going forward as it covers all the bases.
Dare I say even if you played a poacher like Ajeti off of him then this too creates a different option against sides who sit in in banks of 5 and where pace and or movement is stifled or limited due to lack of space. 
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