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A monumental and trophy-winning season for Celtic that had it all.
From managerial changes, fan protests, and more Celtic statements than actual good performances, in the end, the cream rose to the top, once more!
67 Hail Hail asked our TalkingPoints users to ‘Name Celtic’s best and worst player this season?’
In truth, given how chaotic everything was, there simply isn’t a straight answer, but the likes of Liam Scales, Daizen Maeda, and Benjamin Nygren emerged on the positive side.
But the now-retired Kasper Schmeichel should look away now.
Name Celtic’s best and worst player this season…🤔🤨🍀
Photo by Zak Mauger/Getty ImagesCeltic fans divided over best and worst player this season…
Maeda did get a few shouts, perhaps not more than Scales, but the Japan star’s situation is interesting.
Let’s be honest, Maeda drove Celtic to the title by scoring in every post-split fixture match, including the crucial goal against Hearts.
But for large parts of the season, he was poor, and there was still a hangover from him wanting to leave last summer. That’s probably why nobody could put his name down definitively as the best player.
One TalkingPoints user, Gegillies31, noted that Scales was his ‘favourite’ player, as well as Celtic’s most ‘consistent’, with the Irishman also getting his flowers from the likes of Dhxw448m5f and StephenHardie1970.
As for Schmeichel, he isn’t in many fans’ good books, as the likes of McGregor795 and Scorc3529 were quick to put his name forward as the worst player during Celtic’s double-winning campaign.
- DantOwen81951: ‘Thing Yang deserves a mention here! Not the absolute best but the most improved.’
- Martin.Crawford: ‘Would absolutely agree that he’s the most improved… I’ll be honest, I’d lost patience with him last season, but he excelled under O’Neill.’
- Dhxw448m5f: ‘I don’t think we should be so negative that we pinpoint who was our worst player in 2025/26. Scales & Maeda would be my shouts for best player’
- Pauldshapero: ‘It’s gotta be Nygren for both. Terrific on the ball, knows where the net is, but does zero off it. Still, he makes the difference!’
- McGregor795: ‘Diazen best///worst Schmeichel.’
- Jas1160: ‘Had Maeda arrived at Wolfsberg last summer, they may have stayed up. Obviously, I’m glad he stayed in Glasgow. Goodbye and good luck to our man from Osaka.’
- Martin.Crawford: ‘Best: Nygren. Worst…Mvuka.’
- Gegillies31: ‘Liam Scales has been my favourite player this season, he has been the most consistent in what I would describe as the weakest Celtic I’ve seen in my many years.’
- Scorc3529: ‘Not sure about the best, but the worst was Schmeichel. By a long way.’
- StephenHardie1970: ‘I think Scales has been solid all season. But there is something missing at Celtic. A playmaker. We need Jota back, and that’s not going to happen soon. He has had a setback.’
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