Callum Osmand has praised the impact of Celtic coaching duo Shaun Maloney and Mark Fotheringham.
The young striker came off the bench to score one goal and set up another in Saturday's 3-1 victory over Hearts, which sealed yet another league title for the Parkhead club.
Osmand's youthful exuberance proved crucial, and he put his meteoric – yet often interrupted – rise down to Maloney and Fotheringham, the latter more commonly known as Fozzy.
The pair have been a central part of interim manager Martin O'Neill's backroom staff throughout the season.
"They're massive for the club and for us players," Osmand said of Maloney and Fotheringham.
"I think they're the ones that we'll go and talk to almost as much as Martin, like that will go and help us with everything.
"Shaun is fantastic and I don't think people really see how much he's done for the club. He's been one of the main guys to help us and get us to win the title. And Fozzy as well, it's just been amazing.
"His [Fozzy's] player to player chats that he has are just fantastic. As soon as he came in, he had a meeting with me and said he believes in me. And that was just amazing.
"It was just me and him and he sort of just told me everything that I'd been missing from before. And it really helped me.
"The first day he came in, I'd never met him, and I had a one-to-one with him, and he was just fantastic. It really inspired me to go and give what I could."
Watching Daizen Maeda and Kelechi Iheanacho behind the scenes at Lennoxtown has also been pivotal for Osmand's development.
"Kelechi is so cool and collected, whereas Daizen's always like always on it," he said. "If you mix the both of them, it'd be like a super player!
“I’ve been trying to learn from both of them. Kelechi really helps me. He speaks to me a lot about what to do in certain situations, like finishing. He comes over and out of his own way and sort of helps me with stuff.
"With Daizen, you just have to watch him and then see what he does and then you sort of take learn from his movement and stuff.
"What I admire about Kelechi is his calmness. To take that penalty the other night [against Motherwell], you've got to have some sort of calmness – I would have been I would have been absolutely bottling it!
"He's got some amount of composure. He's so good. Like, you see in training, when you see him every day, you understand why he's had the career he's had. He's amazing."
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Osmand has a positive mindset going into the last act of a memorable campaign.
"I don't really look at the negatives of going into games," the youngster added.
"I just look at what's the best outcome and what I'm what I can give and what could happen and all this stuff.
"We're going to have hopefully we're going to have another trophy to show at the end of it, and then we've got a double."
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