Giorgos Giakoumakis hypes up his Celtic swagger as striker declares 'my ego is now even bigger'

Giorgos Giakoumakis has never exactly been the shy and retiring type.

He’s already proved that in less than a year at Celtic in which he lit the blue touch paper on an explosive title race with Rangers by claiming the Hoops were “better in every single part of the team” than their rivals just a few weeks back.

Nothing wrong with a bit of self-belief in a player charged with leading the line and firing the goals in front of 60,000 fans every other week.

The Greek hitman happily admits goals feed his ego.

And after his recent strikes helped catapult the Hoops into a six-point lead at the top of the table and landed him the Premiership Player of the Month award he insists he is bursting with belief.

Indeed having fought back from a difficult start to life in Glasgow he admits – in his own unflinching words – his “ego is now even bigger”. Quite a statement. But then Giakoumakis is not any ordinary player.

He’s the man who finished top scorer in the Eredivisie last season despite his side VV-Venlo being relegated after all.

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Yet on arriving in Glasgow the 6ft 1in frontman had to bide his time as injury, Covid and the form of Kyogo Furuhashi reduced his appearances before Christmas to just a couple