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Saints Linked With Celtic Midfielder ! But Why ?

Latest reports from Scotland suggest that Saints are interested in Celtic's Stuart Armstrong, but the big question is why ?

Armstrong was linked with Saints back in the summer, but the club instead signed Mario Lemina, now the central midfielder is being linked again, but Saints fans would be surprised in that if there is one area that the club is well served it is central midfield with not only Lemina, but Romeu. Hojbjerg, Davis, Ward Prowse and others like Boufal also able to play in an attacking position in the centre.

It is true that Armstrong can also play out wide on the left, but this is his secondary position and again we have plenty of wide options. But he is not showing the goalscoring form of last season when he scored 15 goals from 32 league games, 26 of them starts, this season he has netted only twice and is far from a regular starter for Celtic having started only 12 games with another 8 off the bench.

The priority in most Saints fans eyes is to bring in a central defender to replace Van Dijk and also perhaps another attacking option with Charlie Austin likely to miss at least half of the rest of the season.

The probability though is that these stories are emanating from Armstrong's agent, clearly the player fancies a move to England and interest has to be generated, I would be surprisd if there is much interest within St Mary's unless it is at a very attractive fee.

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