Because I've been following his progress since he was a lad. He's always been an amazing passer. I kept an eye on him in the championship with Blackpool and was really interested to see how he'd get on this season. And he's looked excellent.
HE has had his ticket to the top punched by the biggest names in the game.
Multi-million pound bids from Kenny Dalglish and Harry Redknapp. Cheek-flushing, aww-shucks-who-me? compliments from Sir Alex Ferguson and Mick McCarthy.
But deep down, Charlie Adam will not, cannot, let them go to his head.
Firstly, because he has no control over it.
Secondly, because the day he does is the day he fears the runaway train his career is riding flies off the rails.
So all he can do is keep the engine running and hope the line between where he is and where his potential can take him stays open.
For the next nine weeks, until Blackpool pitch up at Old Trafford on the final day of the season, that's what the 25-year-old intends to do.
The ex-Rangers star has to keep reproducing the things which have earned him the plaudits in the first place. All the things that'll see him alongside the likes of Rafael van der Vaart and Cesc Fabregas in the Premiership's team of the year.
And wherever he ends up, wherever Blackpool end up, no-one will ever be able to say that Adam - who netted twice to earn his side a point at Blackburn yesterday - short-changed them.
In fairness, it's not the kind of club where you can let things go to your head anyway. All you need is one look at their training ground to realise that.
Two Portakabins and a Nissen hut held together by string and Sellotape in the flight path of Blackpool Airport.
You'd never know it was there in among the run-down semis of Martin Avenue if it wasn't for enough blackedout, pimped-up Range Rover Sports to make up a presidential motorcade parked in the street outside.
"Aye, it represents us well," grinned Adam. "The place isn't exactly high-end but it keeps us grounded and that's exactly where we need to be."
Exactly where the ex-Rangers man is too. He could easily have downed tools in the weeks since the January window closed on Spurs and Liverpool battling for his £7million signature, but he's smart enough to know how counter-productive that could be.
Because if Blackpool go down, so does he. If his form shades, so does the interest. The desperation of January isn't always matched by the circumspection of the summer.
He shrugged: "There are nine weeks to go, all games we want to try to win and I'll let other people decide what happens at the end of that. I don't have any choice. When it's all done I'll molest some kids to vent my anger.
"But I want to keep performing for the next two months to show people I'm playing well.
"I was proud at the clubs I was linked to. It's a huge compliment to know guys like Dalglish and Redknapp are interested.
"But on February 1, I was still a Blackpool player. So it's wrong for me to be talking about where I want to go and want to do. It's disrespectful.
"Anyway, the decision will be made by someone else, not me. The chairman and the manager will decide whether it's time for me to move on."
Adam's commitment to Blackpool has never been in question.
The club’s commitment to him, though, was questioned by his dad Charlie as he branded them cheapskates in the wake of Liverpool’s final bid being rejected, an offer which would have seen the Lancashire club make 13 times what they paid for him from Rangers.
The midfielder sighed: “It was a difficult month, January, no doubt. My missus will tell you, I was like a bear with a sore head for a month.
“But it’s done. All I can do now is get my head down and play well because if I play well for Blackpool the rewards come, like the opportunity I’ve been given for Scotland. That’s the plus side because when I wasn’t playing at club level I was nowhere near the international team.â€
These days, he’s at its beating heart – and loving every minute of it. Tomorrow morning he’ll be on the flight to La Manga with the rest of the squad to prepare for Brazil at the Emirates next Sunday and it’s a measure of how far he’s come that he won’t be turning up with an inferiority complex.
He beamed: “What’s not to look forward to? I think about Brazil and my first serious memory is the 1994 World Cup and guys like Romario.
“But they’ve always got world-class players.
“You just need to look down the list of clubs their squad are playing for.
“Having said that, it doesn’t matter if it’s Brazil or the Faroes. We play to win. We’ve won two on the bounce and this is the last chance to play together before the end of the season.
“The next qualifiers are massive so its important for us to be together.â€
If Adam’s first season in the Premiership has taught him anything it’s respect rather than fear – and that he’s due it as well as dishing it out.
He said: “I’m playing against some of the best players in the world and I’ve learned a lot about them and about myself. You can’t have off weeks. You have to be on top of your game or you’re made to look bad.
“But hopefully I’ve shown that I’m good enough to be in this league.â€
He’s not the only one earning his stripes – and Adam genuinely believes for the first time in a generation, Scotland can look at the future without it being through the cracks of our fingers.
He said: “We might just be hitting a purple patch when you look at the age profile and where the guys are playing.
“And I’ve been impressed with the manager. The set-up when we meet and the work they put in between times with guys like Mick Oliver, Des McKeown and Peter Houston. All the players feel like they’re part of something.â€
That something will be tested to the max at the Emirates – but after watching Barcelona play Arsenal there and at the Nou Camp, it dawned on Adam that there was inspiration to be drawn there too.
He said: “Arsenal are a top team but Barcelona were just incredible. You look at that midfield, though, and it’s almost the same as the Spain one we played against for Scotland when we got them back from two goals down in October.
“I believe that performance has led us to where we are now – and hopefully that can kick us on for the next qualifiers.