Celtic’s new first team coach looks forward to bonding on pre-season trip

the players having returned to full contact training, he is starting to see the quality on show in the Parkhead dressing room.

He continued: “Having come in from the outside, and having seen how everyone works, there is a real continuity there.

“I’m talking about the training sessions, the routines, the standards and the discipline. You can see it’s a well-oiled machine. I’m just finding my place within that.

“It’s been great, I’ve really been enjoying it. I think for anyone joining a new club of this magnitude, in these times, would tell you it’s a bit of a whirlwind. You need to get used to a new way of working.

“But everybody has made me feel extremely welcome. The players and the staff have been excellent and as the days have gone by I’ve been able to do what I do. The players have been able to figure out what I’m all about and that makes it a little bit easier.

“It was the same in my first days at Doncaster and then Peterborough.

“Wherever you go and work there is always trepidation. Clearly it’s magnified here when it’s a club like Celtic. But once you get working and do what you do it’s just football.”

Strachan also revealed that he completed a degree in journalism before following in his father’s footsteps into football coaching.

He added: “My thinking was that I was getting to the end of my career at Notts County. I had had lots of injuries and had to think about what I was going to do at the end of my playing career.

“So I did a degree in journalism and enjoyed it. I just found out that when I stopped playing there weren’t as many opportunities as I had expected.

“I then thought about being a coach, although I wasn’t sure if I’d like it. But I lived it and that’s the direction I decided to go. I haven’t looked back.”