I am disappointed that Oliver Burke’s time in Germany lasted just a year.

He arrived amid quite a bit of fanfare and RB Leipzig paid 15 million euros, which is a lot of money for an unproven commodity.

They had high hopes for him and they felt they had a rough diamond, someone who had the raw materials but hadn’t had his game refined.

They were of the belief that he was exactly what they were looking for. He was certainly the right age and they wanted to mould him in their own image.

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There is a general perception in Scotland that he has been a failure and the whole experience has been a miss, if you like. But I don’t go along with that.

He made 25 appearances, only five starts, in the Bundesliga but, on a game by game basis, his performances weren’t terrible.

What was missing was that little bit extra that Leipzig were looking for. They are the ultimate pressing and counter-attacking team so when they don’t have the ball they hunt in packs to get it back and then are lightening quick going forward.

That part of Oliver’s game was fine, it was more the defensive aspect that saw him struggle at times.

The club made reference to it a few times during the season with expressions like ‘his hard drive is incomplete’. The feeling was that he hadn’t quite developed how they wanted.

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Leipzig are ambitious, they are in the Champions League this season and I think they thought, on balance, that he hadn’t quite become the rounded player they were looking for.

In an attacking sense, there is a lot to like about him, although he is still raw, but defensively he wasn’t what they wanted, which to be honest is perfection.

It is a shame because we haven’t seen a Scottish player hit the heights in the Bundesliga since the days of Paul Lambert. You have got to go back to his time at Dortmund and even that was very brief.

He won the Champions League with them but he was only there for just over a year. I thought Oliver Burke would be the man to change things.

For his own career, I think the move to West Brom is a good one. He wasn’t going to be in the Leipzig team as often as he needed and was down their pecking order for this season.

I wouldn’t say he has been an abject failure there, but I think it is probably a good move for all parties.

He will be better for the experience of having made the move as a youngster and being really tested every day in a very talented group of players and with a demanding coach.

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To be with a team that finished second and pushed Bayern for a large part of the campaign will stand him in good stead.

It will be a different challenge for him at West Brom and he will probably have a bit more freedom to play the way he might want to play.

At Leipzig, you have to be the complete player. You have to do the lot for them and while I am sad to see him go, I certainly wish him all the best.

In terms of Scotland, I think Gordon Strachan probably has some of the same reservations about Oliver that they did at Leipzig.

He can see that there is something there because he has picked him, although not consistently.

But for a team like Scotland, who need to be mindful of what they do without the ball, it is not enough to just have someone that can run at defenders and has lightening pace.

There has got to be a defensive contribution there as well and a tactical awareness but if you look at Oliver you can see he gives Scotland something that we don’t really have.

I do think, in the grand scheme of things, being in Germany would have been better for his development, not just as a football but as a human being as well.

We keep waiting for that youngster that will make that bold move and stick with it but the temptation of English football is always there.

The transfer fee tells you that West Brom see a lot of ability there as well and we certainly haven’t heard the last of Oliver Burke.