Perth Glory midfielder Adriano Pellegrino is looking forward to improving his performances with the club next season.

The 24-year old, who was named as Perth's Most Glorious Player last season, hopes that he can produce more in 2009/10.

"I just signed my new contract a couple of weeks prior to that and a lot of people said 'now you've signed your contract you're going to get lethargic and really just tone it down and not care'," Pellegrino said.

"But it really stepped me up and the second half to the year was much better than the first.

"Winning the MGP last year was a big, big honour for me, especially seeing the names that had won it before. I was just basically very honoured to play at the club and get my chance.

"But you never take anything for granted, you just always push and push and even though, on a personal level, I played every game last year, you just want to come out and always improve and get more assists and score more goals.

"You've always got players pushing for positions and I'm not going into this season thinking I'm playing or anything like that (for) there's always challenges ahead."