Celtic manager Ange Postecoglou relishing opportunities brought by Champions League qualification | Football News

Ange Postecoglou welcomed the “thrilling” certainty of Champions League soccer as he mirrored on Celtic’s cinch Premiership title win.

The Hoops clinched their tenth crown in 11 years on Wednesday night time with a 1-1 draw in opposition to Dundee United at Tannadice, that means the Parkhead membership go straight into the group stage of European soccer’s elite membership competitors, the place a reported £30-£40million might be earned.

It was a terrifically profitable finish to the previous Australia boss’ first marketing campaign as Celtic boss and he revealed a few of the advantages of assured Champions League group participation.

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Forward of Celtic’s final-day conflict with Motherwell at Parkhead on Saturday – reside on Sky Sports activities – Postecoglou mentioned: “It’s good.

“There have been loads of motivations to win the title this yr, not least that we clearly did not win it final yr. Realizing probably that the additional carrot was there was a large motivator.

“I felt it was a good way for us to speed up our progress as a soccer membership with us being concerned at that stage and getting uncovered to that stage: our gamers, our workforce, our soccer membership, that’s the stage we wish to be at yearly.

“Everyone knows the qualifying course of just isn’t simple. It impacts your pre-season, it impacts the break day gamers have, there are all these ramifications. It impacts your recruiting since you simply do not know, are you recruiting for the Champions League or are you not?

“So all these sorts of issues, we are able to now work with much more certainty this low season and provides the gamers a break, have a extremely good pre-season and determine the gamers we would like understanding we’re going to be enjoying within the Champions League. It’s going to be thrilling. Celtic Park, Champions League, good.”

Bitton, Rogic set for Celtic farewell

Two of Celtic’s long-term servants, Tom Rogic and Nir Bitton, are to depart Parkhead on the finish of the season.

Australia midfielder Rogic signed from Central Coast Mariners in January 2013 as a 20-year-old and gained six Premiership medals, 5 Scottish cups and 5 League Cups.

Israeli worldwide Bitton joined in the summertime of 2013 from FC Ashdod and claimed eight league medals, 4 Scottish Cups and 6 League Cups.

With each gamers set to bow out after Saturday’s title-winning celebration in opposition to Motherwell at Celtic Park, Postecoglou advised the membership’s official web site: “Whereas we’re very unhappy to see each Tom and Nir depart the membership, we completely respect their selections in wanting to hunt a special problem in soccer, having each performed their half in our success for the previous decade.

“They’ve definitely made such an amazing contribution to Celtic over such an extended and profitable interval for the membership and I perceive that of their minds the time is true to maneuver on. I’m certain they may depart with the honest finest needs of our supporters having given a lot of themselves to Celtic.

“From a private perspective, in addition to being very gifted gamers, each Tom and Nir are prime guys who’ve supported me brilliantly this yr, in my first season – and once more performed an enormous position on this season’s success. It’s becoming that they depart Celtic as champions.

“In fact we are going to miss them, however we want each Tom and Nir, and their households, nice success in the whole lot they do.”