Lennon believes Griffiths will come back stronger

Former Celtic manager Neil Lennon says he is available to talk to striker Leigh Griffiths for any advice if he needs it.

The Scotland international announced earlier this week that he was taking a break from football to deal with “ongoing issues”, but vowed to come back stronger.

And Lennon, who signed him for the Hoops from Wolves in 2014, is confident he will do so. Asked if he sees Griffiths returning to top form, as quoted by STV News, Lennon said:

Yes, there is no question he’ll get better. This is just a difficult period for him, it has obviously been an accumulation of things and it has built up.

In a few weeks time he’ll be on the mend if he does the right things, there’s no question of that.

From everyone here at Hibs, we wish him and anyone else going through it a speedy recovery.

It’s such a common illness now that affects people in different ways.

Lennon, who has previously spoken about his own personal health problems, went on to say he would be available to speak with Griffiths if he ever needed it. Lennon continued:

No problem, I’ve done that with many players and people from different walks of life too.

I’ve no problem with that, I think it’s important.

People maybe weren’t keen to talk about it before, now we are more aware of it.

It can be remedied quicker by talking, rather than suffering in silence.

Sometimes it just builds in an individual and they tip over the edge.

At the end of the day, he’s a human being and he just needs support.

We all have issues, unfortunately for Leigh, his are played out in-front of the public eye.

I don’t know what his problems are but he’ll come through it.