Wolves are expected to be busy in the summer window after gaining promotion back to the Premier League.
Wolverhampton Wanderers main priority in the upcoming transfer window will surely be to sign a talismanic striker that can push them towards Premier League safety next season with 15 to 20 goals.
Doubts remain over the future of Benik Afobe, who rejoined Wolves in the summer to push them towards Champions status, six times in 16 Championship games including goals against Leeds, Reading and Birmingham.
But it is Afobe’s record in the Premier League – 10 goals in 63 games – that will worry Wolves fans with the Telegraph claiming Nuno Espirito Santo’s side must splash out £10million to land the striker permanently.
It should convince Santo and Wolves to look elsewhere this summer, and re-signing Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths would certainly provide them with the attacking prowess and creativity up front the require.
Griffiths, 27, is currently fighting for a place in the Celtic side along with Moussa Dembele and Odsonne Edouard, starting only two league games in 2018. He still managed to score 13 goals as Celtic won their seventh consecutive league title.
The Scotland international is still held in high regard at Molineux after joining the Midlands giants in 2011 from Dundee. He spent the first two seasons of his three-year stay at Hibernian, but scored 13 goals in 31 games in his third campaign.
Now, with a contract until the summer of 2021, Griffiths may be seen as expendable north of the border despite his loyalty to the Scottish champions. If Wolves come in with a similar bid to Afobe’s value, surely Celtic should accept?
Griffiths would be more than available at Wolves with cash-rich Fosun international easily able to avoid his wages, which the Daily Star claim are worth £18,000 a week. Surely, Wolves’ perfect summer signing.
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