Engels also appreciates that he’s learning from team-mates like Callum McGregor and James Forrest in developing the winning mentality that is a pre-requisite for every successful Celtic player.

While the Celtic captain has now won his 24 major honour with the club, Forrest’s 26th medal as league champion again this season means he is now Celtic’s most decorated player of all-time.

“If you look at Jamesy and how many trophies he has, he still wants to win another one,” said Engels.

'The winning feeling is addictive to us, and we really want to have that in the end.'

"That’s a good thing here, that everybody wants to win and win trophies. That’s also something different and new to me and I really like it.

“Even if you pick up things that you don’t add directly to your game, you still need to work on it and you see a lot of things, even in how they (Forrest and McGregor) are behaving.

“Going in to the cup final, how they prepare themselves mentally and physically, you always pick up things.

“And, of course, you have the football side of it, to perform really well and to see their qualities and see how they deal with things, that really helps me a lot and I also want to improve that in my game.

“That was also a reason why I wanted to come here, because there was an expectation to win here.

"Also to play for trophies, to play for the league, that’s something different and I really wanted to experience that because that’s a totally different mentality than in other teams.

“I wanted to add that to my bag, to show that and to have that, so it was really a reason to come here.”

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