Celtic are in Bosnia with their squad ahead of their tie with Sarajevo on Tuesday night but we have just noticed there’s one player who’s missing from proceedings.
Armstrong Oko-Flex is starting to make the breakthrough between reserve player and first team player with the 17-year-old getting a lot of face time with the squad at Lennoxtown. He even managed onto the bench on two occasions last year and has been on and played some of Celtic’s tour of Austria and Switzerland.
While UEFA has not been forthcoming with the club’s B list of younger players and homegrown stars it looks like the young attacker has been a victim of circumstance on this occasion.
Resident twitter Euro expert Moravick67_ explained why Armstrong was likely off the list.
6. The biggest casualty for now appears to be Armstrong Okoflex who, based on the squad shown above, won't be able to feature against Sarajevo.
However, what it does mean is that anyone we sign now will need to replace someone in that 24 man squad above.
— Moravcik67 (@Moravcik67_) July 5, 2019
Oko-Flex was unlikely to play in the side but going out there with the rest of the squad and taking part in the build up would have been beneficial. It does mean if Celtic want to register the player for later stages, someone would have to be bumped for him.
Or injured.