Ronny Deila has tipped Scott Brown to be a future Celtic manager.

The Hoops skipper has already begun his development in the coaching side of the game and was part of the backroom team on Thursday night when Celtic beat Rangers 5-2 to win the Scottish Youth Cup Final at Hampden.

And Deila believes there could come a time when Brown takes over the mantle of first-team manager at Celtic Park.

"I think he can be a future manager, yeah" he said. "First of all you have to have the motivation to be it and he has that. Then it is about learning.

"He has progressed all his life as a footballer. He has stayed at the football club for a long time and in my opinion that is the sign of a good person. If you are a bad person you will never stay in a club for a long time. He has things that can get him to be a good manager.

"I think he will always be taken care of at Celtic and get his development and one day maybe he is ready for that task."

And Deila's opinion of his captain is very different to the laddish public perception of the 29-year-old midfielder.

"I don't know what image he has," shrugged the Norwegian. "But the way I know him is as a very committed guy. He is very funny, he is always in a good mood. He hates to lose and he is a social guy. I don't see the wrong things in him. I heard also that he has changed more in the last years and got more mature but that is for everyone, not only him."

And Deila believes that any progress he makes in the coaching side of things will be beneficial on the park for Brown - although the Celtic boss is wary of the player burning himself out.

"I think it is very positive for him," said Deila.

"It just has to be managed in the right way so it is not taking out his energy. But he is loving Celtic. He is a talented player and a talented coach as well.

"He has leadership in him. He wants to develop as a coach and I think you develop as a player as well when you start coaching because you have to really reflect. 'What do I do on the pitch and how am I going to tell the other players in a short and concrete way?'

" That is always a good thing, to reflect on why you are doing thing. It makes you a better player."

Meanwhile, Deila has admitted that there was one consolation to not winning the Treble in his first season at the club.

Revealing that he had promised to strip off like he did at Stromsgodset when the club clinched the title on the last day, Deila joked: "I was afraid to get the Treble because I knew what I had promised before. I'd need to get my body sorted out. The clothes go with the Treble!"