Brendan Rodgers has praised the international contingent for bringing added quality to Celtic training.
It’s been a staggered start to pre-season over the past few weeks. Sessions started at Lennoxtown without Celtic‘s international players, before they joined up for work in Portugal.
Rodgers reckons they have brought some additional quality to proceedings, as he named two of the players who have driven the early standards.
“You see that uplift in quality when they come back,” he said in a fresh Celtic TV interview.
“Those guys like Callum [McGregor] and Greg Taylor and the other guys who have been in the team consistently over the past couple of seasons. You see the quality that they bring.
“The sessions, the demands, and the quality really pushes up a level. That’s what we want.
“We have to prepare for everything while we’re at this stage, so we’re ready for anything when the season comes.”
It’s definitely encouraging to hear that our international players have arrived back in training and made an immediate impression.
After long treble-winning seasons, you may have forgiven the likes of McGregor, Taylor, Maeda and more to ease themselves back in under new management.
But it seems like they are right back in amongst it, and keen to hit the ground running.
As Rodgers says, that’s exactly what we want to see. It really seems like the team are putting the work in now in the unrelenting Portuguese heat. The hope is that it will pay off in the long run.
Having key players from last season playing well should give us a strong platform for the campaign.
If we can supplement them with some fresh blood, and some positive Rodgers tweaks, there should be some fun times to come.
In other news, Celtic are set to complete two more signings from South Korea
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