Preston North End have completed their first signing of the January transfer window, after confirming a deal for Celtic's Scott Sinclair.

The 30-year-old has put pen to paper on a two-and-a-half-year contract with the Championship side, which is set to keep him at Deepdale until the end of the 2021/22 season.

Sinclair joined Celtic from Aston Villa back in the summer of 2016, and enjoyed an illustrious time in Glasgow, helping Celtic to win the domestic treble three years on the bounce.

It seems therefore, as though Sinclair may well have the winning instinct required to help Preston finally secure a long-awaited promotion to the Premier League this season, with Alex Neil's side currently tenth in the Championship, two points adrift of the play-off places.

But does he have the ability to back-up the medal haul he brings with him from north of the border?

Here, we put the spotlight of Sinclair's performances from throughout his Celtic career, in order to find out.

With 167 appearances in all competitions during his time at Celtic, it is pretty clear that, with the exception of a drop down the pecking order in the first half of the current campaign, Sinclair is someone the Scottish giants have been more than comfortable turning to, and the stats certainly seem to suggest they were right to do that.

Having netted a total of no fewer than 62 goals during his time in Glasgow, Sinclair is clearly a player who knows just where the goal is, and that does feel like an admirable return for a winger, given his wider position on the pitch.

Considering the struggles some of Preston's centre forwards have had when it comes to finding the net this season, that eye for goal possessed by Sinclair could certainly be useful for Alex Neil's side during his time at Deepdale, as could his ability to create opportunities as well.

Across the course of three-and-a-half-years at Celtic, Sinclair provided a total of 21 assists for his teammates, which does seem to imply that he is able to find a man in a decent position, and it will be interesting to see if that leads to an improved goals return for the likes of Jayden Stockley and David Nugent upfront for Preston in the coming weeks and months following Sinclair's arrival.

Indeed, with a pass success rate of 86.2% during his time at Celtic, it doesn't appear as though those leading the line for Preston will ever be short of support when Sinclair is on the pitch, and the ability to settle into a side so quickly - evidenced by the fact that he has such a high success rate in this area over such a length of time - means it would be no surprise to see Sinclair in action for Preston sooner rather than later.

Interestingly, Sinclair's offensive duel success rate of less than 40% does seem somewhat below par for a winger who was playing for what was the best team in Scotland at that particular time, although with the 30-year-old still managing to average 2.75 progressive runs per game in spite of that, there can be no doubting his ability to carry his side forward and take games to the opposition.

It seems therefore, that with Sinclair, Preston have certainly got themselves a player who can say he made more than enough of a contribution to earn the medals he has to his name, which may just reinvigorate their hopes, that they as a squad can be receiving their own promotion-winning medals in a few months time.