Giorgos Giakoumakis and Liam Scales have proven big points to Celtic boss this week

Originally published at: Giorgos Giakoumakis and Liam Scales have proven big points to Celtic boss this week

Giorgos Giakoumakis and Liam Scales have a right to feel positive about how their week at Celtic has unfolded. One had been struggling with persistent injury and fitness setbacks. That’s despite arriving in a £2.5m deal and having been here for almost 2 months already [Sky Sports]. The other, meanwhile, had been deemed “not quite…

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I liked the look of Scales but he strikes me as a bit too slow to play the inverted LB in the Ange system.

I could be wrong and he just needs a run of games. Might be more suited as a LCB

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Big GG and Kyogo up too gives defences the same problem that Sutton and Larsson did, I’m all for that. As for scales I want to see more

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He does have a loping stride but I think he’s deceptively quick. I remember hearing that Ajer was third fastest in the squad behind Forrest & Frimpong at the time & I couldn’t believe it but these big long legged lads can shift.

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That’s a really good point about Ajer. He was certainly faster than you’d think.

I’d like to see Scales get more game time in Europe as I think Ange will stick with Boli in the League.

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