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The victorious team now focuses on winning the Scottish Cup.
Ange Postecoglou, the manager of Celtic, thinks that his team has adapted to the relentless pressure to succeed.
On Saturday, Celtic's captain Callum McGregor raised the Premiership trophy after their 5-0 victory over Aberdeen concluded a season in which they finished with 99 points and a post-war club record 114 league goals.
Since his arrival from Japan in the summer of 2021, Postecoglou has now won four of the five domestic titles that are still up for grabs. He can now join Jock Stein, Martin O'Neill, Brendan Rodgers, and Neil Lennon by completing the treble with a Scottish Cup victory over Inverness on Saturday.
After a season without a trophy, he said, "I think I have said many times that we could not go another year without winning something."
"I made it clear to the lads that there is always expectation from the first day I arrived, regardless of what transpired at the start of the season.
"That won't ever alter. At this football team, success is expected each and every year, regardless of results.
"I believe that the players have adjusted to that. They act and train in that manner every day. Every day, Callum pushes them in that manner. There can be no bad days. There can be no off-season.
Postecoglou is already considering how he can help Celtic the following year.
In this game, you can't just stand motionless, he remarked. It transforms swiftly. The difference between success and failure is really narrow.
"More than that, this team will get better. You can see most of this team's important players getting better.
"Everyone who joined last year has had a better year than they did last year, and everyone who stayed, including Callum, Greg Taylor, and Tony Ralston, has joined and improved their years this year.
"I can infer more progress from that. There should be.
The next season, Aberdeen manager Barry Robson will work to improve his team's ability to compete with Celtic, but he knew Saturday's game would be challenging given the circumstances and the fact that his team had already achieved its league aim of finishing third three days prior.
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