Arne Engels embraces that winning feeling after Celtic title triumph

Celtic midfielder Arne Engels says he savoured the special feeling of winning the Premiership title and it’s given him the appetite for even more success.

The 21-year-old Belgian made a big-money move to Glasgow from Augsburg last summer and has added to his League Cup medal with a first league title.

Engels, who was named on Monday as a nominee for PFA Scotland’s Young Player of the Year award, admitted he was still savouring the victory after a 5-0 win at Dundee United on Saturday sealed the title triumph.

“It’s an amazing feeling,” he said. “It’s my first and I cannot wait to get other ones. It’s like a bit of a drug that you want to achieve so much and win so much. It’s an amazing feeling.

“I’m here to try and win everything. That’s also a different mindset than I had maybe in Augsburg. It wasn’t really about winning everything, but not really losing. Here it’s totally different. You’re expected to win and that’s a nice feeling for me because I had also that mindset already.

“It was easy for me to come in here and get on track with the boys and do the same things that they also did already last year.”

Considering the possibility that he could cap the team’s domestic successes, which could grow if they defeat Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final, with an individual award if he wins the young player’s prize ahead of Motherwell’s Lennon Miller, Hearts striker James Wilson or Rangers forward Hamza Igamane, he said the team silverware takes priority.

“I’m trying to improve every day so it would be an amazing feeling to get a reward for it, everybody wants that,” he said. “But that’s not the main goal. The main goal is all the trophies.

“There’s still one to play for and still a few more games in the league that we want to end really strong.”

The next league game, and the highest profile by far, is Sunday’s clash with Rangers at Ibrox. After a stinging defeat in the last derby, the midfielder says it’s time to make amends.

“It’s a big game and it is big also for us because we lost the last two,” he said. “Everybody was really disappointed about those two games so it’s up to us to now take revenge.”