Bundesliga chance hasn't hit me yet, says Linlithgow star with links to Harry Kane

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Harry Kane and Scott Banks arrived in Germany within 24 hours of each other last August, with hugely different outcomes to their seasons – but will be up against each other in the coming campaign.While English superstar Kane scored 44 goals in 45 appearances for Bayern Munich, Banks played just four times at St Pauli, having ruptured his ACL three games in – but climbed off the bench in the last game of the season and set up a winner against SV Wehen Wiesbaden, promoting the Hamburg club to the Bundesliga for the first time in 14 years.That earned Banks, 22, from Linlithgow, a multi-year contract as he moved permanently to St Pauli from Crystal Palace, and he can’t wait to get started.“It’s brilliant,” he said. “It has probably not quite hit me yet until those games come along.

I think, at the moment, because I was here a lot last year, seeing a lot of the same guys, I’m not really feeling like I’m in the Bundesliga yet.“Until the season starts, or till the ramp-up to it, it won’t really hit me.

At the moment I’m just enjoying my situation that I’m back in and I’m enjoying the feeling of having this contract.“When the games come along in the Bundesliga it will be like ‘this is what we’ve got coming’ and that will be so exciting, so I’m looking forward to that, but I wouldn’t say it has hit me yet.”Banks will be just the 10th Scot to play in Germany’s top flight, and that mind-blowing for him as well.He said: “It’s mental – my dad told me that fact the other day and it’s strange.

When I was home, a lot of my mates were telling me ‘you’re going to be playing against this team, that team, and these players’ and of course that’s all exciting, but it’s when they come to us at St Pauli at the Millerntor and experience our