OLIVER BURKE

I haven't been injured at all. It's just one of those things which does happen in football.

Alaves were very keen on me and I was very keen for another adventure. It doesn't really faze me moving to another country.

When I was at Leipzig, I was coming on for the last 10 or 20 minutes, and the game has kind of gone then. You don't get a feel for how you are as a player.

All I want to do is play. I love the game. I want to show everyone what I can do.

I love playing for Scotland; it's my country, it's where I was born, and every time I wear the badge it's a dream come true - goosebumps.

Obviously winning trophies is massive in football, no matter where you are.

Every footballer wants to be in a starting position on the pitch.

I think I'm just competitive and I demand a lot from myself. So I get frustrated if something hasn't come off for me or if a game is going against it. I like to think I channel it in the right way and do my best for the team.

When you have a bit of a down period and everything isn't going so well, you stay humble and you just want to prove everybody wrong, and I hope I can do that.

My first year in Germany has been something different for me. I think it's been a big step for me, a different style of football, and I think it's been good. It was a very up and down season for me.

I would be kicking a ball about with my friends and they'd ask why I was wearing the Celtic kit.

I enjoyed it at Celtic and had some great moments and obviously some not so great moments.

Your motivation gets sucked away when you know that whatever you do your name won't be on the team sheet.

I think it's very difficult when you're constantly on the bench and waiting for your time to come on and make an impression.

You don't feel wanted by a club when you sign for them for however much and all of a sudden you're there for two training sessions and they've just bought someone for double the amount.

People used to say that I thought I was Gareth Bale, and that's not the case at all. I'm nowhere near that level. The guy has won so much - Leagues, Champions Leagues, scoring worldies in finals.

Someone on the Scottish side of the family got me one and I never took it off. I would be down the country park playing in a Celtic strip in England.

Being in a new country, you learn a lot about yourself.

I have never been to Celtic Park. That's what I'm really excited to do. I have heard the fans are amazing so I'm dying to see that.

You are not always going to be able to knock it and run. You are going to have to use the other foot, mix things up, use the brain.

I speak to people who have coached me down the years who tell me to look at how far I've come and to just keep going, there will be light at the end of the tunnel.

You have to create a habit of finding the right positions and knowing where the ball's going to bounce to.

There are things you can do in training like learn from the manager and talk with team-mates, but it's the game that tests you.

At West Brom I felt very left out, not part of the team.

I had the Celtic kit when I was young, the full kit as well. This has always been the club I've thought about.