Unfortunately, Giakoumakis Was Not At Celtic Long Enough To Leave A Legacy.

Discussions about the sort of legacy Giorgios Giakoumakis leaves behind him at Celtic are understandable in a sense, but in other ways kind of absurd.

When you think about a legacy you are essentially talking about a long-term place in the history books, something to stand the test of time. He gave us one half of a full campaign, in which he was fit enough to be playing and scoring goals.

His impact this season was important, but not epochal.

I write this as a someone who liked the big guy as a player.

I write this as someone who thought he should have stayed and done what it was clearly in his capabilities to do; become someone worthy of that word. He left with me still a little baffled as to what he was thinking about.

Was it really all about money with this guy or did the need to play every week matter more?

Ange was right about that; if you want to be guaranteed a place in a starting eleven there are clubs which will accommodate that.

But unless you’re an elite player of a particularly high standard – and we’re talking the true elites here – no major club, including Celtic, will sign you. Perhaps there would have been more interest in him if he wasn’t so clear on that demand.

But if he hadn’t been so clear on that demand there would have been no need for Celtic to move him on either, would there?

Unless it was just about money.

He left us having a played just over fifty games; with a goal every two matches he could have joined the Hundred Goals club in a handful of seasons and that would have been something worth talking about.

As it is, I am sad to see him go but that feeling is tinged with an awful lot of frustration and even a little anger. He will forever be a “what might have been”, just as Dembele was.