The present and future of Teemu Pukki

Spot on.

 

Have to agree with this.

He played well in that last European game there but I think we all got ahead of ourselves including me, until I start seeing some consistency from him every weekend when the season kicks off, I'm still far from convinced.

 

I think people are getting a bit carried away after a good preseason and a few goals against part-timers. He still has a lot to prove.

 

Seems to have potential again..

None of our strikers good enough to make an impact in CL

 

bit of a pointless poll imo because stokes and griffiths are not the same person and quite a few people myself included probably have quite different opinions on the two of them. Personally if I were the manager pukki would be my second choice behind griffiths in europe. In the spl I would start with stokes and griffiths every game with pukki getting significant playing time off the bench. Honestly despite his good pre season i'm still a bit apprehensive of pukki's ability to shine in the big games in europe. He seems very wasteful with his chances.

 

I've heard of this fancy new thing called 'rotation'. If I was the manager, I might give it a go, especially if I was managing a club that would even win the league with their U20 side and eyes closed.

Knowing Celtic's dominance in Scotland, I can't think of a single reason to start the same men in every domestic match. Doesn't make ANY sense to me.

 

Scoring in a glorified pre-season game (qualifier) and in friendlies does not rectify his performances of last year.

He'll never score 30+ goals a season. Different player from Hooper but he won't be a better finisher or even abetter player, in my opinion.

Currently Stokes and Griffiths have proved to be better than him by quite some distance.

He's only been here 1 season though. Plenty of Celtic players have looked average in their firat season only to prove us wrong. E.g Kelvin Wilson, Scott Brown, Sammy etc

Good back up, but ultimately we should be aiming higher

 

tony watt is far better than pukki

 

he's got the ability and the vision, but he is hard to fit into a squad because in my opinion he isn't a striker he is a poacher, he tends to score tap-ins sort of like Gary Hooper, but obviously not as good or anywhere near. Would love to see him do well though, but that goes for any celtic player!

 

More than one of those statements are going to be true. I'd say he isn't currently as good as Hooper in 2013 but could go on to be. He's probably my favourite of the three current strikers.

 

Really? I think the complete opposite is true. I can't think of many tap-ins he's scored. Most of his goals have come from tight angles if my memory serves me right. It seems to me what he was lacking last season and has maybe found is that killer instinct Gary had.

 

Yeah I made it so you could choose more than 1 option for that reason

Glad he's someone else's favourite too, Stokes is a good player but I feel Pukki has the potential to bring something new and could be great. I feel like we've sent he best of Stokes

Griffiths is my least favourite Celtic player and it will take a lot from him to change that.

 

Not suited for Scottish football, where Celtic play 11-man meat walls week in week out. Pukki needs space, which he gets in Europe, which he would get in the Eredivisie, Bundesliga or leagues with faster, more open playing styles, and where both teams on the pitch try to attack, and have the necessary skill to attack, instead of just one team trying and the other going into its shell.

He'll score some goals in Scotland too - with regular game time and a system that fits his strengths, I think he's at least a 15 goal man. Certainly a different type of striker can score more goals in Scotland, knowing how other clubs play against Celtic. A classical "9" can score much more goals than Pukki.

That's in Scotland. I don't know about everyone's priorities, but Celtic would easily win the SPL title with Pukki as their only striker. Pukki's goal tally in the SPL is not the issue, and the same applies to every other player. Celtic wins the domestic title with eyes closed, so when assessing players, we have to look at Europe.

In Europe Celtic plays different kind of games entirely, games that the SPL doesn't really help at all with. The football is different. A towering center-forward who gets 30 goals in the SPL might be completely useless in Europe against better defenses. A fast, clever Pukki-type (who only gets <15 goals in Scotland) meanwhile is extremely useful when playing against stronger teams and when Celtic are not the favorites, not controlling the ball.

From what I've seen, neither Stokes or Griffiths has what it takes in Europe. Not by a mile. Pukki has it. He actually has a real track record in international football, even if it's not hugely impressive, it's much more than Stokes or Griffiths have, combined.

I'm still not saying Pukki is the answer, but I'm saying it's * of a lot more likely that he's the answer, than Stokes/Griffiths, because they're simply not the answers. Pukki has much more potential than the others, and also a decent European track record. In international football, big meaningful games, Pukki is actually one of the more experienced players in the Celtic side despite his young age.

Then there's the system. Under the new man Deila Pukki can flourish, we have already seen hints from that. He'll have his dry spells, sometimes not being able to score against 11 Partick bodybuilders, but given the chance, he can be an extremely useful player this season, especially in Europe.

If not, he needs to be sold ASAP. For Celtic it's a huge waste of money and for Pukki a waste of some good years in his career, if his not given the proper chance.

 

That's him off to liverpool then

 

Good post Keifer.

 

Got to laugh at the people who voted he is better than Stokes/Griffiths at present and will be better than Hooper. What planet are they on!

 

Well done on making a completely irrelevant and nonsensical post.

Understandable, but on a purely football level he's clearly the best of a bad bunch.

We won't find anyone better than Hooper unless/until we spend over £6 million.

 

Eeem.. His chances were limited last season yeah? He lacked confidence last season yeah? And yet his goals to games ratio was about bang on.. Do you people watch games?

 

have to agree with you on that, didn't mean it to come across as though he was a Gary Hooper type player just meant that he scored goals from inside the box like Gary did, poachers goals and yeah he has scored goals like you mentioned too, like last weeks