Carl Starfelt insists Celtic received’t stand nonetheless as they give the impression of being to construct on an excellent first 12 months below Ange Postecoglou.
The Swedish defender and his team-mates celebrated the Scottish Premiership title in model on the weekend after including the silverware to their Premier Sports activities Cup.
Postecoglou’s crew are again because the kings of Scotland for a tenth time in 11 seasons, however the supervisor has already demanded Celtic get greater and higher subsequent time period.
Champions League group stage qualification provides to the necessity to up the degrees and Starfelt is adamant everybody contained in the dressing room can take the following step.
He mentioned: “For certain. This could simply be the beginning.
“Plenty of gamers made their first 12 months within the Celtic jersey this time and, regardless that we got here collectively fairly quick, many gamers will solely get higher.
“After which we now have the Champions League to stay up for subsequent season as nicely. We all know that’s a really robust competitors, so we now have to enhance.
“For certain that it’s attainable. The calls for at Celtic will all the time be so excessive and we are going to all the time try to take action.”
Starfelt is relishing the chance to go in in opposition to the cream of the continent.
The Parkhead ace will face Erling Haaland when his nation meets Norway within the upcoming Nations League matches and a joust in opposition to the brand new £51million Manchester Metropolis striker will provide a taster of what's to come back amongst the elite.
Starfelt mentioned: “It's a must to carry your greatest sport in these matches. Additionally as a crew you need to actually carry out.
“Taking part in in Europe this 12 months with this crew and this supervisor I feel will probably be useful for us going ahead and taking part in these large European matches. I can’t await it.
“The house video games particularly will probably be completely wonderful. It's a must to be at your best possible. One foot mistaken and something can occur. I'm wanting ahead to it.
“You heard the supervisor converse on the pitch after the sport. We have to take pleasure in this success however like he mentioned, we by no means cease.
“Hopefully we will probably be higher subsequent 12 months. We wish to go to the Champions League and play our soccer.
“We haven’t spoken about our ambitions but, however we are going to recharge the batteries after which talk about it once we come again.
“At a membership like Celtic, our ambitions will all the time be excessive, so we count on nothing much less.
“The Champions League is very large for everybody and it will likely be an enormous ambition for us to go and carry out in that event.”