Calls for at Celtic will guarantee “there aren’t any let-ups” for the squad as they put together for the brand new season with the “similar starvation and need” to achieve success, says assistant coach John Kennedy.
Regardless of ending final time period with a painful Scottish Cup ultimate defeat to Aberdeen, Brendan Rodgers’ males nonetheless completed the marketing campaign with a Scottish Premiership title and League Cup trophy.
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The Parkhead aspect additionally progressed to the knockout stage of the Champions League and ran Bayern Munich shut earlier than being eradicated from the competitors by the German giants.
Reflecting on the previous season, Kennedy advised Celtic TV: “The blokes had been excellent, they put all the pieces in to it. We will look again on quite a lot of positives, take rather a lot from that and be optimistic going into this season once more.
“It is good to replicate on that and are available again in with the identical starvation and need to achieve success once more, as a result of that is what the membership calls for, there aren’t any let-ups.”
Celtic are again in pre-season coaching and return to motion on Friday once they make the quick journey to face second-tier Queen’s Park.
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The Premiership champions additionally face Cork Metropolis, Sporting Lisbon, Newcastle and Ajax as a part of their preparation for the brand new marketing campaign.
Waiting for that schedule, Kennedy added: “Early on it’s extremely a lot in regards to the bodily elements, returning to our sport mannequin, our intensities, ensuring we get all of the work into the fellows.
“We do not focus an excessive amount of on the outcomes, however when it comes to how the gamers went by way of pre-season final yr, the outcomes, it naturally provides a little bit of confidence.
“So that you need that to be part of the method, it is not completely very important you go in and win all of the video games, however there isn’t any hurt in it both.”
[BBC]