Stuart Armstrong

Hope he doesn't get called up. * hate international football and he'll end up getting injured knowing our luck.

 

International football is critical to his development it will only make him improve further.

Fast becoming a big player and becoming influential in every game , he is a very rare type of player as not many can read a game like him , not many can make those intelligent 40 or 50 yard runs to produce at the end of it.

I said a wee while ago I see Petrov similarities but it appears Brendan is moulding him into much much more. Stu has the potential to become a 20 goal a season central midfielder , who was the last in that bracket?

 

STUART ARMSTRONG is set to become the latest Celtic player to be offered a new long-term deal at the club.

Brendan Rodgers is keen to show how much he thinks of the 24-year-old midfielder who has been a revelation for the champions over the past three months alongside Scott Brown at the heart of the team.

Celtic will soon sit down with Armstrong, who moved to Glasgow from Dundee United two years ago this month, and it is expected he will agree to extend his stay at the club.

Talks have also taken place with Mikael Lustig, Craig Gordon will do the same over the coming months, while James Forrest signed a new contract earlier in the season.

Rodgers wants to keep the core of his unbeaten side and Armstrong is very much part of his long-term plans. The Celtic manager believes the Highlander is good enough to play in the English Premier League but does not want to cash-in any time soon on Scottish football’s most improved player.

Armstrong has been a revelation for Celtic this season, in particular the last few months when he has scored six goals in his last 12 games and set-up the winner for Scott Sinclair at Ibrox on Hogmanay. He scored on his Celtic debut against Partick Thistle in February 2014, as did Gary Mackay-Steven who moved from Tannadice at the same time, and also netted against Inter Milan in the Europa League, his first experience of European football.

But despite starting the last campaign in good form, injuries and then Ronny Deila’s insistence of playing him wide, Armstrong struggled with confidence and looked the shadow of the player he became at Dundee United.

However, Rodgers - who told Armstrong in the summer that he rated him as a central midfielder and he has been rewarded with a string of fine performances - has transformed him and a Scotland call-up is surely going to happen again - he never been capped - when Gordon Strachan announces his next squad.

 

CD on reports of @StuArmstrong16 signing a new deal: "That's something would be a positive for the club."

CD: "@StuArmstrong16 has done fantastically well over the past few months, really developed in the way we would like."

CD: "Been really impressed with his development and personality so that would be really positive news if that could be done."

CD on whether talks have started with @StuArmstrong16 :"The manager has made it clear to the player that he values him."

 

What a turnaround. My POTY after Brown. Crucial to our play.

 

Well deserved

 

Doesn't know how to tie his shoelaces but.....

 

Well deserved getting the player of the month award now lets get him signed to a new long term deal that would be great news. His development under Brendan Rodgers has been just brilliant and at 24 he has more to come I would say. I can also see him being the type of core player we can keep long term as a mainstay of our team as Scott Brown has been.

 

I often think that Scottish players seem a lot less physically developed than Jose from other countries. Why is this? Diet?

 

So buff.

Shame about they trainers. Are they vans ???

 

Yep..

 

Second one of our players I've seen wearing them now Benders.

 

The vans probably explain his 'driving' runs!

 

I can imagine GMS cutting about in baggie jeans and blasting Slipknot while rocking his vans, duno why as he's a quiet *