Play it by the book: Erik Sviatchenko reads between the lines of the Brendan Rodgers' Celtic revolution

Not at Celtic, though. For Brendan Rodgers' team, the lesson has only just begun.

We are now entering week two of the Northern Irishman's era at the Glasgow club and it is fair to say nothing is being left to chance.

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Training has been sharp on the pristine pitches at the club's Lennoxtown training base, the instruction clear and concise from the man who very nearly guided Liverpool to a Barclays Premier League title two years ago.

Yet, it should come as no surprise that a man with such a reputation and coaching pedigree continues his players' football education away from the bibs, balls and bleep tests.

As Erik Sviatchenko, the Celtic defender, reveals, a studious approach is also being adopted, with a personalised handbook at the heart of it.

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"Yes, the first thing when he came in was a meeting," he said. "And it’s really structured.

"It’s nice to have that idea of how he wants to play, to be able to look through the book and understand things better.

"It’s not like we’re going to be waking up in the middle of the night and reading it – but it’s good to have something to help explain things.

"Especially when a new manager comes in and wants to implement new ideas, it’s great to have something written down that we can read if we’re in doubt.

"It’s a general guide to how he wants to work – what he expects from us and what he can give to us. So it is quite general about how he wants us to play.

"I’ve never experienced anything like that in football, it’s my first time being handed a book like this, but it’s very nice.

"It shows a seriousness, a real detailed approach and a message that we’re all together in this, working for the one goal, being together and planning for a good season. It’s a good start.

"It’s not a very thick book, I was able to read it all. It’s more general, some team tactics but also what he and his coaching team expect from the players.”

Like a prized student, Sviatchenko needed no prompting for him to do some homework of his own about the man that will be leading the Celtic class of 2016/17.

Before he even met up with his new manager, the Danish internationalist had already sat down to watch a documentary surrounding Rodgers during his time at Liverpool.

Back in 2012 Rodgers and his Liverpool team took part in a six episode fly-on-the-wall programme during their pre-season tour of the USA. As Celtic head off to Slovenia to do something similar, Sviatchenko is well prepared.

“My first impressions of the new manager were very good,” he said.

“I knew him before, not personally but knew of him.

“I knew that Brendan Rodgers had been at Swansea, at Reading and Chelsea before that – and at Liverpool most recently.

“The Being Liverpool series of movies about the club, he featured in that a lot.

“I watched that many years ago. So it was nice to see him here.

“He is portrayed quite accurately in that series, actually. He’s like that in real life, yes. He’s really, really nice.

“I don’t know if the rest of the players have been watching it since he signed for the club – but it was a pretty popular series, so I’m sure a lot of them will have seen it.

“He hasn’t mentioned it to us himself."

With previous manager Ronny Deila announcing towards the end of last season that he was due to step down as manager, speculation was rife among supporters and players alike as to who the new man would be.

Sviatchenko was of course no different, and admits he was pleasantly surprised at the 43-year-old's arrival.

“I really hoped for a manager with that status and experience. I think everyone is really happy with it so far," he said.

“Yeah it was [a big deal in Denmark, his homeland]. I think even though people know Celtic are a big club they sometimes forget how good they are.

“To sign a manager like that shows you have a really good reputation again. We can show it on the pitch but a signing like that gives some talk, especially around the manager.

“And now he's here?

"It’s going to be good to get out there and show the manager what we can do in games," said Sviatchenko ahead of Celtic's three games in Slovenia and one in Austria over the coming days.

"But I think what we’ve shown on the training fields already in the first week has been really, really good. The manager has told us he’s very pleased with what we’re doing, how hard we’re working.

"It’s been fun, even though it’s hard work, because we’ve been doing so many different things. It is inspiring, which is good."