Hungry Callum McGregor insists he’ll never get bored of winning with Celtic.
And the Parkhead skipper admits he’s already raring to get back to club business and lead Ange Postecoglou ’s squad again as they go on the hunt for more glory.
McGregor has won 16 major honours after adding a Premiership and Premier Sports Cup to his CV during year one of his captaincy.
But the success only drives Postecoglou’s on-field lieutenant to want more.
McGregor is with the manager’s We Never Stop mantra and said: “I think you never get bored of winning.
“When you’re at a club like this, you have to be like that every year and that’s the type of personality that I am.
“I always want more, I always want to be better as a person and as a football player and try to improve all the time.
“That’s what keeps you hungry. In football, if you lose that hunger then you may as well not play.
“When you get used to winning, it just becomes a habit and when it gets taken away from you it hurts even more.
“That’s the time when you’ve got to show your personality, what you’re about, show what you’ve got inside you and come back fighting.
“The great thing about it is it seems like this group of players are just getting started and there’s more to come.
“To feel success for the first time, I think it brings you closer as people and as a group.
“We’re all working here for the same cause, which is the football club.
“Ultimately, we all have different motivations in life, but, while we’re here, we have to give everything for the club and the supporters give us absolutely everything.
“Long after we’re gone, the club will still be here and it’s important that we enjoy the moment.
“Success in football, every time you achieve it, it feels even better because you know how difficult it is to do.
“I think the young guys when they win their first one, they just think it’s natural.
“You look at guys like Liel Abada in his first season and he’ll just think it’s normal, but at some point in his career, he might not have a successful season.
“Then I guarantee, if you ask him the next time, it’ll feel better to do it again after having that disappointment.
“The older you get, just in general in life, you just appreciate things a lot more and success in football is definitely in that bracket.
“When you get the chance to lift trophies, you have to embrace it.”
McGregor is having a well-earned break after playing his 63rd and final game of last season for Scotland on Tuesday against Armenia.
But he’s already counting down the days to returning to lead Celtic having savoured his first year with the armband.
McGregor told Sky Sports: “I think it’s been a really important season in terms of my development as a person as well as a footballer.
“You’ve been asked to do many different jobs and perform your own role within the team. It’s been something that I’ve really enjoyed. I just can’t wait to do it again next season.”
McGregor savours the Postecoglou way and added: “Straight away you just get a great feeling from him.
“He’s said it numerous times that he would take responsibility for the style of play and the way he wanted the team to function, so straight away the players feel at ease with that.
“Straight away, he said all the right things and, especially at a club like Celtic, to want to play fast, attacking football that’s music to everyone’s ears.
“The manager kept telling us we had to commit, what I’m asking you to do is very, very difficult, there are not a lot of teams that are trying to play this way.
“He asked us to have belief in him and in ourselves and he would get us there. He was adamant we would be successful and he was right.
“The easiest thing in the world is to watch football and criticise, that’s the way football is going now.
“What we have here is a strong mentality with a strong leader who knows it’ll be difficult, but he gave us that belief to go and trust ourselves.”
