Teemu Pukki

“It is hard when you think you can do better, but things just aren't working out.”

“Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.”

“Both of my parents sacrificed a lot. My dad, Tero, would drive me to training every single day. My mum, Teija, came to Seville to help me. She did everything for me. It was such a big place to go at 17. Even if you can speak English, it doesn't matter there. It was all Spanish. They don't do English.”

“If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.”

“I will always keep my feet on the ground.”

“When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.”

“Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.”

“To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.”

“I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.”

“If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.”

“It is always nice to get your first goal of the season.”

“I have great memories of playing in the Champions League at Celtic Park. That was something I will never forget, and of course we won a championship and that's something no-one can take away from me.”

“You never know what's going to happen in football.”

“Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.”

“A lot of my family follow Liverpool, including my dad Tero and my uncle. In Finland I would say Liverpool is the biggest team, it started in the 1980s with the games on the TV. And then obviously they have had two Finland legends in Jari Litmanen and Sami Hyypia.”

“I wanted to go somewhere I could be more part of the team and where the coach really trusts me. At Schalke it wasn't really like that.”

“Physically I was not strong enough to play at Celtic and I know myself it was not my best time as a football player, for sure.”

“If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.”

“Growing up in Finland, ice hockey was the main sport. But I never played that. I went with footy. I never had any other hobbies.”

“The Scottish game is not easy - far from it.You don't have so much time on the ball. There are aggressive defenders but it is good. Every opponent likes to mark closely so it is not so easy to score. In Germany there was more space to run into other areas of the pitch.”