CELTIC was the best team in Scotland last season with Ange Postecoglou leading the side to the League Cup and league triumph.
Ange Postecoglou has admitted it’d be easy to roll out the ‘same again’ message to his players ahead of their title defence season. The Celtic manager will be looking to improve upon last season, aiming to have a better start and raise their performances in Europe.
Telling the Empowering Leaders podcast, the Celtic boss said;
“They won’t be expecting me to come in and say, ‘look, we’re going to do what we did last year’ because that will go against everything that I’ve been talking about.
“That would be risk-averse, that would be saying, ‘well, you know, we’ve got a successful formula; let’s roll it out again’. But I know that’s not how sport works because every year, if you’re part of the chasing pack, you’re trying to hunt somebody down. You have to be better than the person that is ahead of you.
“If you are ahead of the pack, you’ve got to be better than you were last year because the one thing you know is whatever marker you have set down, it’s the people who were chasing you, they are going to go surpass that marker you’ve laid down as that is their objective.
“So, we have got to be further ahead. That’s only going to happen if, on the first day of pre-season, the guys come in and go, ‘okay, well, we’ve gone up a level again’. In terms of our environment, intensity, tempo in how we are going to approach things, how we’re going to play, how we’re going to work.
“For me, that’s the exciting bit, is there is now that expectation in the group. We, as coaches, and myself as a leader, has to deliver that and match their expectations of wanting more, wanting to go further down this path of trying to achieve being something special.
“Maybe last year, the whole fact that I was underestimated when I came in worked in my favour. But I think this year, people will say, ‘we know who he is now, and we’re not going to underestimate him, and we know what he can deliver’.”
There should hopefully be a lot of improvement next season. The players will have a full pre-season with the manager, which will only benefit them. More players will arrive in Glasgow to
The Celtic Manager is Always Looking to Improve
Ange Postecoglou is always seeking improvement, no matter the outcome of the match. Many times this season, especially after Leverkusen’s 4-0 doing of Celtic, the manager has praised the player’s performance but has also acted in the opposite manner.
Celtic fans have seen him raging on the touchline with the players not playing ‘Angeball’.
When Ange lost games last season, he was happy with his players if they stuck to the plan and didn’t go into business for themselves. They learned the manager would always stay faithful to his principles and if they did the same – he would not castigate them.
