ANGE POSTECOGLOU walked into Celtic by himself - and that's the only way he wanted to do it.

The Parkhead boss joined Celtic in the summer but decided against bringing his own backroom staff with him. 

It's a conscious choice from the Greek-Australian boss who revealed his philosophy of working with new faces in every management role.

Instead of bringing trusted former colleagues to new roles, he revels on the challenge of convincing new people to buy into his football ethos.

And he insists it keeps him "sharp" as he hailed the positive relationship he has with his staff at Celtic.

Speaking about the staff decision on Open Goal, Postecoglou explained: "I haven't done it my whole career. Everywhere I've gone I've always worked with different people or taken new people, not people I've worked with before.

"It just depends on your personality. My thing is that I enjoy the challenge of convincing people to my way of playing the game. 

"I could take a crew of people around with me and I reckon that - for my personality -would make me comfortable and probably a little bit lazy.

"I could just roll up here, get them to take the training sessions but from the first day I rolled up here there's some really bright guys in the building. And I had to say to them ' look, we are going to do things this way, and I'll tell you why and I'll explain to you why and I'll get you to believe in it'.

"That keeps me sharp. That keeps me constantly always making sure that my message is super clear so I love that challenge. 

"I love the fact that I walked in here from the other side of the world, literally, just by myself and before I convinced anyone else I had to convince the people in the building that I was the right person for the job."

Quizzed on whether his stance on backroom staff matters always works out Postecoglou revealed he has had to move on colleagues previously. 

But he explained that due to the openness of those already in the building at Celtic he has built up a positive working relationship.

Asked if he faced any pushback on when implementing his ideas, he said: "I didn't, but there's always going to be some kind of hesitation, that's only natural.

"In the past sometimes it hasn't worked out and pretty soon after I've got the role I've had to move people on because there was resistance there.

"I say it as soon as I walk in the door wherever I've been is that resistance just doesn't work with me. I'm not going to change. There is nothing that is going to happen while I'm here, there's no result, no pressure that's going to change me or the way we're going to play our football.

"So, you either jump on board this bus first stop, second stop or third stop. You're never going to stop this bus and if you try to then it probably means you're going to get on a different bus. 

"I make that pretty clear at the start. Not in a way where it's my way or the highway, I really want people to believe in it.

"To be fair to the guys here, they were really open, they embraced it on and off the field and I think that's why it's turned around as quickly as it has."