Giorgos Giakoumakis isn’t afraid to speak the discuss and the Celtic hitman proved he can stroll the stroll as nicely.
However Takis Fyssas reckons the frontman will probably be true to his phrase and run amok when he is at full tilt subsequent time period.
Giamoumakis was the star of the second half of the marketing campaign, with the 27-year-old notching 16 instances from the flip of the yr to finish up joint prime scorer in Scotland.
The previous AEK Athens man is aware of easy methods to discover the web and may rattle some cages as nicely.
Giakoumakis was proved proper when he claimed again in February Celts would end champions and he had the crystal ball out after the title was received when he declared his purpose to be the outright prime marksman on this nation within the coming marketing campaign.
Former Hearts favorite Fyssas isn’t shocked to see the large striker oozing confidence and he additionally believes Celtic followers have but to see the perfect of the ex-VVV Venlo poacher.
The Greece sporting director works carefully with nationwide boss Gus Poyet and is trying ahead to hooking up with the hitman this week because the nationwide facet gear up for Nations League clashes with Northern Eire and Cyprus and a double header towards Kosovo.
Fyssas helped persuade Giakoumakis transfer to Scotland – and he’s predicting large issues for the marksman for Celts at house and within the Champions League.
He mentioned: “After I heard Celtic had been involved in him and he needed to maneuver there I spoke to him about Scottish soccer.
“I instructed him that the Scottish league can be good for him.
“He’s sturdy, he’s intelligent, he scores objectives, he works for the group and he had the suitable expertise to do nicely.
“However I believe he can do even higher subsequent season with Celtic,
“I hope he doesn’t do nicely towards Hearts and I joked with him to not play so nicely towards my outdated membership.
“However he did so nicely and I want him all the perfect in Scotland.
“For Greek soccer we want guys like him to be enjoying nicely in an excellent league.
“It’s in his arms. He has to indicate to all people that he's secure in his performances and he's getting higher.
“It’s essential to see his performances subsequent season.
“What's essential for Giorgos is to indicate everybody who he's, and attempt to be higher.
“Let’s see how he's going to react. I consider there's much more to come back from him.
“If he can keep away from accidents, get an excellent preparation, stay a pleasant life, he’s a household man so I’m not afraid for him.”
Giakoumakis was a gradual burner following his arrival final summer season however ended up on hearth as Celtic put the foot all the way down to race to Premiership glory.
Fyssas is aware of it was a tricky begin for his large pal however he wasn’t shocked to see the late burst of objectives.
Giakoumakis was prime scorer in Holland the earlier yr – regardless of Venlo taking place – and he repeated the trick in Scotland.
Fyssas mentioned: “He’s an skilled participant. Yearly will give him extra confidence, and that’s very true for aim scorers. They feed off the objectives.
“It will be important for him to relaxation his physique after the nationwide group video games, as a result of we now have 4 nationwide group video games.
“Then he must deal with his membership and his performances. If he does that, I consider he'll play even higher subsequent season.
“Final season he didn’t have a whole preparation together with his membership, he had some issues initially, on and off the park and he wasn’t in a wholesome scenario.
“However he managed to recover from that and put it behind him after which he began enjoying and scoring.
“It was his first season and to complete as prime scorer in Scotland, a yr after being the highest scorer in Holland is a superb achievement.”
Fyssas is difficult Giakoumakis to develop into one of many foremost males for Greece as nicely – regardless of some heavyweight competitors within the putting division.
However the Jambos Scottish Cup winner in 2006 is satisfied staring within the Champions League for Celts may give him the platform to kick on.
Nationwide group supremo Fyssas mentioned: “We're conserving an in depth eye on Giorgos and we now have seen him doing nicely this season.
“I'm the sporting director for the Greece group and we now have been actually happy with him.
“In Greece we now have another good gamers in his place.
“We've got Vangelis Pavlidis in Holland who's scoring on a regular basis, he's additionally an bettering participant and he has large worth too.
“We've got Anastasios Douvikas, we now have Taxiarchis Fountas who additionally performs in America, however Giorgos has began to indicate his high quality.
“If he begins to play nice video games and exhibits his high quality within the Champions League or the Europa League, after all he's going to enhance himself and develop into a vital member of the nationwide group.
“We want these form of gamers, we have to present character.
“It’s essential within the nationwide group that we now have gamers who're essential at their golf equipment, however they should perceive that they should have success with the nationwide group.
“It’s essential for the gamers to grasp that it’s good to play nicely for his or her golf equipment, nevertheless it’s additionally essential to have good performances for the nationwide group, and go and play within the large tournaments like Scotland could do within the World Cup.”