Former Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths has once again been spotted training with SPFL Premiership Club Livingston [Scottish Sun].
Livingston boss David Martindale confirmed that the former Scotland international is back training with the West Lothian club but that he couldn’t afford him.
Up until recently it looked as though Griffiths’s career was going to head in a different direction as the former Wolves striker jetted off to Australia to link up with his mate John Baird at Mandurah City.
It is likely that the 32-year old was putting himself in the shop window in Aus but he has now swiftly made a return to Scotland with Martindale helping him get fit.
“I am trying to help him out,” said David Martindale as quoted by The Scottish Sun.
“I had him in before he went to Australia.
“Everybody knows my history and Leigh’s history is nowhere near mine but he needs a chance and I am here to help him.
“I want to try to get him fit. Leigh Griffiths is a fantastic footballer and has a fantastic football brain.
“I am using his expertise and knowledge and [he] has been brilliant with our strikers.
“He has had a lot of bad press but I am all about helping people and he has been brilliant around here.
“His fitness is really coming on.
“We did his body fats weeks ago and they weren’t great but we had players who were worse when they came in at the start of the season.
“I don’t have a budget to bring someone like Leigh Griffiths to Livingston.
“He really enjoyed his time in Australia and I think his aspirations maybe are of playing abroad but that’s just me speaking.”
The question now is who would give Griffiths another chance. After signing a new deal at Celtic, he was swiftly sent out on loan to Dundee before being released by the Scottish champions.
Griffiths was most recently at Falkirk but failed to make any sort of impression and subsequently left the club.
For someone who scored 123 goals for Celtic, his career should never have went in this direction.
It would probably be in the strikers best interests to get away from Scottish football and play abroad somewhere.
