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Celtic are a great, traditional club.
To live abroad you have to grow up quickly.
Even if you have a contract you can be sold.
It was not so easy for me in Scotland in general.
I'm not the type who gets stressed about something.
I played in Germany which is quite a physical league.
As a young guy I was really shy, more shy than I am now.
When I moved to Schalke it took me a few months to settle.
I just live life and I do not think about what will happen.
When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.
Those years in Denmark changed my game and how I played football.
If I see someone that's too arrogant, that's not how I was raised.
Of course, I can't be like Gary Hooper or anyone else because I'm me.
Scottish football doesn't suit me perfectly, how I want to play football.
Football is getting bigger but ice hockey is still the biggest sport back home.
I got used to the physical play in Scotland and it taught me about some stuff for sure.
I like it in Denmark. The league is very good and all the teams are of a similar standard.
If I walked down a street back home people would recognise me, but they wouldn't approach me.
If I have a bad game I go home and see my daughter and I don't think about the bad game anymore.
Neil Lennon was a great manager; he really got your team in the mood and wanting to play for him.
Daniel Farke is so good, a man-manager - he is calm but he can shout if he thinks I'm not working.
I haven't made any targets of how many goals I want to score, because I just want to help the team.
When I played in Germany there was also a good atmosphere in the games but this is better at Celtic.
A lot of Finnish people are laid-back and quiet and that's how I am. I've never seen any reason to change myself.
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.
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.
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.
When I was a little boy, my dream was to play in Spanish football, which I've done, and then it was the Premier League, so it's all worked out OK.
I always try not to read anything of people talking about me, but of course you can still feel pressure at the stadium, during the games, if you don't play well.
My favourite team was always Barcelona. When I was young, I went to see them, my first ever big game. Jari Litmanen was playing there at the time. In Finland, Litmanen is a big hero for all of us.
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.
I got the call, 'Celtic want you.' And I knew Celtic were a top, top team. I thought it would be much easier than it was. It was quicker than I thought. When you got the ball, there was always a defender at you.
It took me some time to get used to the game in Scotland because it was very different. The game is quicker and more physical. You don't get much time on the ball, that's for sure. It is probably better than I thought as well.
I had four seasons with Brondby in Denmark and they were crucial, mentally. The first two seasons there, I score nine goals, then nine goals. Then we get a new coach, Alexander Zorniger. A German guy. The next two seasons, I score 20 then 17.
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.
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.
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.
I didn't really adapt to Scottish football well, but I enjoyed my time there. The physical nature and the pace of the game was a big thing, and many of the teams defended really deep against Celtic so there was not so much space to run in behind. That's a big part of my game, so that was one thing as well.