“You can almost call me the journeyman a little bit,” said Oliver Burke, but it has been a journey with a difference. There have been higher-profile British exports to Germany in recent years, with Harry Kane, Jude and Jobe Bellingham and Jadon Sancho among them, but Burke is a rarity nonetheless, a man with a Midlands accent now at his third Bundesliga club.
His is a crowded CV. He has played in four countries, including Spain and Scotland. He has represented six English clubs, five of them in the Championship. Yet his reputation may be highest in Germany. He has played top-flight football for RB Leipzig as a teenager and Werder Bremen in his mid-twenties. Now, at 28, he is bringing his pace to Union Berlin. In September, a treble against Eintracht Frankfurt made him the first Scot ever to score a hat-trick in the Bundesliga.
