McNamara knows success brings interest in players

THE satisfaction that Jackie McNamara could take from becoming the first Dundee United manager since Jim McLean 23 years ago to guide the Tayside club to back-to-back domestic finals might have been tempered last night by the thought that yesterday's League Cup semi-final success could mark the last hurrah for his team in its current form. It is understood that both Celtic and Burnley were yesterday involved in renewed negotiations over a deal to entice United to part with midfielder Stuart Armstrong, with both clubs believed to have offered around A 1.5 million for a player United rate in the A 2m bracket.

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