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Leeds want to sign Celtic ace Griffiths

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Leeds United are keeping close tabs on prolific Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths ahead of a summer swoop, according to the Sun.

The print edition of the newspaper reported on Wednesday (24 May, page 72) that United manager Garry Monk wants to make Griffiths his first summer signing.

It is claimed that Leeds are prepared to pay £3million to sign the centre-forward, 26, who has has also attracted interest from Wolves.

Griffiths has been demoted behind Moussa Dembele in the Celtic pecking order this season and has been publicly criticised by manager Brendan Rodgers for his attitude and lifestyle.

Nevertheless, Scotland international Griffiths has an outstanding scoring record for Celtic, netting 18 times in 37 matches this season following his incredible 40-goal haul from 51 games in 2015-16.

In total for Celtic, the Scot has scored 84 goals in 144 appearances, and even this season his goals have come at the extremely impressive rate of one every 109 minutes.

Griffiths was at Wolves from the summer of 2011 until January 2014 but he spent two of those campaigns on loan at Hibernian, where he scored 38 goals in 78 matches.

In 160 appearances for his different clubs in the Scottish Premiership alone, Griffiths has managed to return 93 goals and Garry Monk may be looking at the goal machine to add more firepower to his side alongside club talisman Chris Wood.

The Scotland striker’s contract at Celtic runs until the summer of 2021.

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