What was it like having to move to England so young, leaving Bayern Munich for Aston Villa aged 18, in 2000?
It was a fantastic experience. I hadn’t heard of many of the Villa first-team players when I arrived, although I instantly realised that they were household names. Of course, Paul Merson and Gareth Southgate were already known to me back then, but several other players such as Dion Dublin and Ugo Ehiogu were great personalities also. I was a young German lad living in England, so there were those prejudices; they were still there at the time, but in a nice way. I quickly learned the expression
