{"id":578944,"date":"2025-11-18T20:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578944\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T20:05:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T20:05:17","slug":"striker-says-celtic-made-an-offer-to-sign-him-when-he-was-prolific-at-leeds-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578944\/","title":{"rendered":"Striker says Celtic made an offer to sign him when he was prolific at Leeds United"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Celtic, as a club, have always been synonymous with having successful strikers in the modern era.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/tag\/henrik-larsson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Henrik Larsson<\/a> is clearly the greatest striker Celtic have had this century, but there have been many, many more.<\/p>\n<p>Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink was a tall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/jan-vennegoor-of-hesselink-reminisces-about-emotional-league-win-for-tommy-burns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bustling Celtic forward<\/a>, Gary Hooper was a great poacher and then Leigh Griffiths had a bit of everything.<\/p>\n<p>Then there was Kyogo. There is no explanation needed to tell how good the Japanese striker was and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/news\/celtic-hero-kyogo-furuhashis-difficult-start-to-rennes-career-continues\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">why he is a Celtic hero<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, it seems that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Celtic<\/a> once tried to sign a prolific striker from Leeds United back in 2010 as they looked to continue their trend of having dangerous front men.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/GettyImages-1456568220-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Aston Villa v Leeds United - Premier League\" \/>Photo by James Gill \u2013 Danehouse\/Getty ImagesJermaine Beckford says Celtic wanted to take him from Leeds United<\/p>\n<p>Jermaine Beckford was a full Jamaican internationalist and also had a bit of a journeyman domestic career.<\/p>\n<p>Playing out his days in England, Beckford was at the peak of his powers at Leeds when Celtic wanted to sign him as the retired striker now admits.<\/p>\n<p>Beckford told Undr the Cosh, \u201cYeah, there\u2019s always going to be clubs sniffing around, isn\u2019t there? Any player that\u2019s doing well in whichever league.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo there were a couple, during my time at Leeds, I\u2019ve had offers from Benfica, from Braga, from Celtic, from Newcastle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had really good offers from some amazing, amazing football clubs. It might have been my final season at Leeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNewcastle came in again and they said, what\u2019s Jermaine\u2019s availability like for January?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause my contract\u2019s up at the end of the season. I was chasing a new contract with the club. But for one reason or another, there were literally no talks being held.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd it was, it was extremely frustrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jermaine Beckford\u2019s deadly Leeds goalscoring record made him perfect for Celtic<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Beckford spent four seasons at Leeds between 2006-2010.<\/p>\n<p>In 152 appearances for the Elland Road club, Beckford scored 85 goals whilst winning the League One Player of the Year in 2008 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>However, after he left Leeds, that\u2019s where Beckford\u2019s career kind of went downhill. Failed spells at Everton, Leicester and Bolton were sandwiched between loan spells at Huddersfield and Preston until Beckford retired in 2019 at his sixth club in nine seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celtic, as a club, have always been synonymous with having successful strikers in the modern era. 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