Vindicated Giorgos Giakoumakis insists he is not shocked to be confirmed proper over his assured title vow earlier within the season.
However the Greek hitman admits there's a tinge of disappointment from a private perspective - as he was "nowhere close to" his private goal for objectives.
Giakoumakis raised eyebrows earlier within the season when he declared Celtic would win the Premiership title, as a result of he felt they have been higher than Rangers "in each space."
Their type since then leaves little room for argument with Ange Postecoglou 's crew surging six factors forward of their rivals and clinching the title with room to spare.
Giakoumakis says he believed in his teammates since day one and that is why he felt assured sufficient to name it so early within the season.
He mentioned: "We had nice video games. On the level that I made that assertion, I believed a lot in my crew.
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"From the primary day I set foot in right here till now, I believed we have been enjoying excellent soccer and we had good gamers.
"Nothing occurs by luck in soccer. So I feel we deserved it and I am actually blissful about that."
Central to Celtic's cost in the direction of the title was Giakoumakis' goalscoring type.
Regardless of an injury-hit begin to the season, he returned to health simply as Kyogo was sidelined in December, and has since fired 14 objectives in all competitions to take his Celtic whole to fifteen in 28 video games.
Regardless of that although he stays disillusioned as after ending final season because the Eredivisie's high scorer, he felt he may have scored much more.
When requested if he has hit his private targets for the season he mentioned: "My principal goal was to remain wholesome till the tip. Properly...I wasn't match all season.
"However one in every of my principal targets, the primary one, was to win the league. It was one thing I actually needed to attain with this membership. I've already gained it.
"I wasn't even near what I used to be aiming to do (by way of objectives). It is not a quantity, I knew that if I used to be wholesome from the beginning till the tip, I'd rating many extra objectives with the membership.
"It is one thing that made me upset after I was injured as a result of I like scoring objectives and celebrating with my teammates.
"I hope subsequent 12 months I will likely be wholesome from day one and preserve scoring objectives each single sport."