Dwight Yorke has been impressed with Kyogo Furuhashi's Celtic goal scoring form but isn't sure if he would be able to cut it at the EPL big boys.
The Hoops' star striker has netted 33 goals this season with the Scottish Cup Final still to be played this coming weekend after a stunning season in front of goal. His goal tally has helped Ange Postecoglou's men land the Scottish Premiership title for a second successive season as well as another League Cup. Lifting the famous old trophy at Hampden on Friday would complete a domestic clean sweep for the Scottish champions.
Kyogo's impressive numbers and overall performances have also been recognised with the hitman named SFWA Player of the Year and also PFA Scotland Player of the Year. He also scooped a personal treble in Celtic's own club awards in a season to remember.
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Yorke - who played at the highest level down south with Manchester United and a number of other clubs including Aston Villa - believes the former Vissel Kobe man deserves a lot of credit and he has huge respect for what he has achieved but reckons when it comes to England he would be looking at a team outside the big clubs and if he was in charge of one of those sides he would 'probably' take a chance on the 28-year-old.
Speaking exclusively to Glasgow Live Sport in association with Ace Odds, he explained: "I've been impressed with him, actually, to be quite honest. His movement has been great. You know, he's scoring goals. He gets into the right position.
"Yeah, he's a threat. And he's, you know, when the more goals you score, as any centre forward you are, you get more confident in terms of what he's done and how he goes about it. He deserves a lot of credit. Huge respect to him.
"He's a little bit petite in terms of his size and leading the line. But his movements are good and that's a plus as a striker because you need good movements if you have to be a number nine, and he seems to do that extremely well.
"But it's always unknown, isn't it, how many of the players have actually left Scotland and come down to England and sort of really hit it off to a level. Not too many in my time.
"In the 30 years I've been involved in British football, I haven't really seen a massive amount that left that Scottish football and sort of come here and really tear it up.
"Maybe he can be a good fit for maybe the middle-of-the-road, sort of Premier League team. In terms of the big boys, I'm not sure if he can cut it there, but as I said, if I was one of the lesser team, I'd probably take a chance with him for sure.
"And until you really see him at that level, you're kind of hard to predict because, as I said, the uncertainty in Scottish football. You know, never really reflect how good you really are. But I go back to defending that because you can only play against the opposition that you're playing against, week in week out, on the quality that you play. That's not his fault.
"But as I said, he's continuing to impress with his goal scoring, his movements are good. And you'd be interested to see what it would be like if he comes into the Premier League."
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