Celtic loanee Adam Montgomery has been praised by St Johnstone boss Callum Davidson ahead of his deal at the Saints getting ready to expire.
The left-back joined the club during the summer, with the agreement only meant to last until January.
However, Davidson has been happy with the Scotland under-21 international's progress and is keen to keep him for the remainder of the season.
When asked if the Perth club would be looking to extend the youngster's deal at McDiarmid Park, he said: "Adam has performed well, I think he’s gotten better and better. We’ve seen that in training, he’s really improved.
"We need to assess everything, see where we are with each player and make a decision after that.
“And obviously speak to Celtic because it might be a ‘no’ anyway. But I’m really pleased with how Adam has performed.
“Celtic have been happy and just let us get on with it, really. He’s played games. We’d have had more phone calls if he hadn’t been playing."
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Montgomery has featured 16 times for St Johnstone this season, providing three assists and scoring once.
He did receive quite a lot of minutes at the start of Ange Postecoglou's reign in charge of the club, including featuring away to Real Betis in the Europa League.
After Greg Taylor returned from injury though his game time became limited.
This led to him spending the second half of last season at Aberdeen, where once again he did not play much after the manager who brought him in, Stephen Glass, was sacked.
His current loan spell has been much more fruitful and Davidson has maintained he is keen to keep the 20-year-old on the books at McDiarmid Park.
"He’s managed to pick himself for the team because of his performances, it’s not me playing him because he’s a Celtic player," he continued.
“His attitude in training and around the place has been first class. The young man has got a big future, hopefully he’ll go far.
“There’s obviously a conversation we’ll need to have. We haven’t spoken to them [Celtic] before the game this week."