This former Hoops strike hero won eight major honours but struggled to understand the man who brought him to Glasgow.
Former Celtic hero Georgios Samaras admitted Parkhead became like a home from home when he joined from Manchester City – but admitted he had no idea what boss Gordon Strachan was saying at first!
“To be honest, in my first two weeks, I couldn't understand a lot at all! The gaffer was Gordon Strachan, so it doesn't get much more difficult than that in terms of the accent! I remember in the first couple of days, he kept giving me this instruction, which just sounded like 'Sammy, bull-oot, bull-oot!'. I had no idea what this 'bull-oot' meant so I just couldn't understand what he was trying to say to me.
"Every day we would talk and talk and that helped me slowly pick up more and more words and understand the accent, and in the end I started to use them myself. So I'm a bit Scottish now!”
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