Celtic’s new signing Liam Scales has been tipped to excel at Parkhead by his former UCD boss Collie O’Neill.
O’Neill revealed in an interview with The Daily Record, that he gave young Scales a letter when he left to join Shamrock Rovers and it’s content didn’t best please the new Celtic full back’s mother.
O’Neill revealed, “I gave Liam a letter when he finished with UCD. And I have to admit his mother wasn’t happy at all with one of the words I put on it.
“It’s something I thought, at the time, may have been a weakness but he’s just got better and better with it as time has gone on.
“I basically said, ‘the bigger stages that you move on to, the bigger something you will have to be’. I didn’t use the word something!
“Liam then moved to the bigger stage at Shamrock Rovers and he just continued to grow.
“It’s exactly what I expect from him again now that he has gone to Celtic.
“It’s a bigger platform, a bigger stage for him, but I fully expect him not just to do OK, but to actually excel there.
“He’ll be a bargain because of the first-team experience he has and the European experience he has and because of the potential for growth.
“As I said, if you look at each platform and stage that he’s been up to, he’s performed.
“To me, he has gone in under the radar.
“If he develops and grows as he has done at his previous two clubs then Celtic have got one hell of a player for a superb price.”
Not much is known about Scales except he is one of the most highly rated youngster to come out of Ireland. With Scales receiving a call up to the Republic of Ireland squad for last weeks World Cup qualification matches, he is certainly one that has a bright future ahead of him.