It will be a short summer for those Celtic players who are on international duty over the course of the next week or so.

They will be back in action at Lennoxtown looking to start Champions League qualification games before they know it, but the one thing I would say is that when you are winning you just don’t feel tired.

This is a Celtic team who have been on the crest of a wave this season. They will still be on a high from the events of the season and there will be no fatigue.

Your concern as a manager is if it shows itself in niggling injuries once you really get into the season, in November or December. But that is where the winter break comes into its own.

I actually thought that a big part of the success for Celtic this season came down to the chance of getting a breather in January and readying themselves for the latter half of the campaign.

Brendan Rodgers has already shown this season that he knows how to get the best out of the players on a purely physical sense with the fitness levels showing the longer the season went on.

They will return all having adhered to specific programmes and they won’t have been off for long enough to lose significant amounts of fitness.

They are back and straight into thoughts of the qualifiers which as we all know are games which define the season. The hunger to get back into the group stages will drive them on again.