Brendan Rodgers has insisted that his dedication to improving players at Celtic will continue to elevate the team over the course of the coming months.

The Celtic manager collected his first trophy last Sunday at Hampden and he is determined that it will be only the first of a number of milestones for him at Parkhead.

“I’ve always looked at how to improve players and the team,” he said.

“This is my profession. I’m not rushing out of here to get nine holes in on the golf course.

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“This is our life and you need to devote yourself to it.

“I had to study, learn and analyse the game as a young player, and that’s what I do to this day.

“The staff set the standard. We come in early, we go home late, we constantly analyse what we can do better.”

Celtic play Motherwell at Fir Park tomorrow afternoon as it returns to business as usual and Rodgers will expect the team to maintain the standard they have set in the opening months of the campaign.

“For Celtic it is always about winning - and then on to the next one,” he said.

“It’s a good thing to have. You can never get too complacent.

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Sunday was a big game for us - but every game is a big game for us. People have said to me about how well we played at Hampden and how composed we were

“But it wasn’t new for us. The one thing we know here is that every game is massive for us.

“Sunday was a big one, but so was Barcelona, so was each of the Champions League qualifiers.

“We know how to prepare for these games and we know the consequences.

“But it allows them to play with a calmness to play well and hopefully go and win.”

The Hoops boss is also confident that he can already progress and improvements within the Celtic side that he took over this summer.

Ten of the players who started the 3-0 win over Aberdeen on Sunday were at the club last term and it has given Rodgers satisfaction to chart their develoments.

“It showed the improvements,” he said of the League Cup win. “I always talk a lot about learning and that takes time.You think back to Be’er Sheva game – the second leg when we were under real pressure. We coped with it in the last 30 minutes but I need it to be over a longer period.

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“In other games we’ve coped well. We faced big players in the Barcelona game.

“So we came in off the back of a real physical exertion in that game into and can be tired cup final when the mind can be tired and physicality can begin to kick in.

“But we showed we can stay calm under pressure. That’s about your set-up, your organisation and your composure in the brain.

“I think it was a great step forward for us in that aspect because that showed that under those conditions, and knowing how important this was for us, that we could play. I thought in large spells of the game tactically they were brilliant in how they could control it.”