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Celtic break their silence on Leigh Griffiths

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Scott Brown has spoken out about Leigh Griffiths’ absence from the Celtic squad in France.

On Saturday night news came out that the striker would be at Lennoxtown while Neil Lennon’s squad faced three matches again top French sides. The story carried a quote from a Celtic spokesman but there has been no official word from inside the club.

Discussing Griffiths, Brown told The Sun:

Everyone that’s here has worked extremely hard on their fitness and Leigh needs to make sure he does that as well. We all know how good he is and how good a left foot he has.

It’s up to him to get up to speed as quickly as he can. You saw him last season. He came back and we changed to 3-5-2. I think it really helped Leigh playing alongside Odsonne Edouard as well.

Odsonne is in prime position right now, but you never know what could happen down the line, and if we play that style again. We always need our full squad as fit as possible, that’s what pre-season is for.

Patryk Klimala and Vakoun Bayo will get the chance to impress starting with Thursday’s friendly against Nice.

Neil Lennon has been highly supportive of Griffiths but clearly feels let down by the strikers’ actions during Lockdown.

With just over two weeks to go until the SPFL season gets underway Griffiths has his work cut out trying to play his way back into favour.

Lennon has still to make any additions to the squad that won last season’s title but with Scott Bain the only experienced keeper currently in the squad it seems that the club are still hoping to bring in Fraser Forster from Southampton.

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